India: from midnight to the millennium and beyond /
Shashi tharoor
- New York: Arcade Publishing, c1997.
- xxi, 392 p.
Includes index.
1. A Myth and an Idea -- 2. Two Assassinations and a Funeral: The Death of a Dynasty -- 3. Unity, Diversity, and Other Contradictions: From the Milk Miracle to the Malayali Miracle -- 4. Scheduled Castes, Unscheduled Change -- 5. Of Indians and Other Minorities -- 6. NRIs: "Never Relinquished India" or "Not Really Indian"? -- 7. The Hindu Rate of Growth, and Other Agnostic Legacies -- 8. "Better Fed Than Free": The Emergency and Other Urgencies -- 9. India at Forty-nine: Notes Toward an Impression of Indian Society and Culture Today -- 10. A Future Without Shock
1559703849 (hb) 1559708034 (pb)
History --India
India--Civilization India--Politics and Government