This post would never end even if the tiniest summaries were made, since what the book contains is incredibly vast. This makes his job harder to write objectively and also makes it open to a much deeper scrutiny. The author also mentions that since he is writing a history which is quite recent, a lot of his readers, along with the author may have lived through these episodes and have their own opinions. Right at the start, the author makes 2 valuable points – for Indians in general, and their history students in particular, India’s history ended on 15 August 1947, after which everything that happened gained prominence in the realm of civics, making a lot of later history unknown to a large populace. The book is incredibly written, not only for its depth of research, with reference notes that run for more than 100 pages, but also the flow that ties the narrative together, keeping the book fast paced and lessons lucid. A magnum opus is an individual’s best produced work, and India After Gandhi might very well be the one for Mr. An oft repeated advice of Charlie Munger to become a better investor has been to “Read history, read history, read history!”, and it is with this motivation that I picked up India After Gandhi – The History of the World’s Largest Democracy, written by the historian Ramachandra Guha.
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