Gandhi Uttar Bharatbarsha by Ramchandra Guha [Hardcover]

Just a few months after independence, the country lost Mahatma Gandhi, the man on whom India's independence movement was based. So the history of contemporary India is essentially post-Gandhi history. The agenda of the country's leaders on the day of independence was filled with certain duties, the author of this book has retrieved it and from that reference episode has written the socio-economic history of India in a political context. Freedom was as much exhilarating as it was painful. Because independence turned millions of people into landless refugees. Mahatma Gandhi was greatly distressed by the partition of the country. Every decade, fresh protests, separatist aspirations, and caste-religion hatred erupted, as his assassination signaled the horrors of independent India. Ramachandra Guha has established that history is not only the words of kings, but the reflection of the people in history, and the constant struggle of life is the real content. Language movements, separatism in North-Eastern Indian states, armed movements for the establishment of separate religious states, or India-China border conflicts have continuously plagued the Indian state since independence. There can be no easy explanation for the wonder why India has been able to remain united despite the political turmoil in India that was being redeveloped and despite India's vast ethno-religious-linguistic diversity. Citing various documents spanning nearly five decades of recent history, this book evokes that wonder at the testimony of mass-oriented analysis.