Makers of Modern India

by Ramachandra Guha

Book Overview

Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers have often served as its most influential political actors--think of Gandhi, whose collected works run to more than ninety volumes, or Ambedkar, or Nehru, who recorded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674052463
• ISBN13: 9780674052468
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"