6/23/2023 0 Comments India after gandhi pages![]() ![]() Guha chronicles this journey of India towards finding its own identity, fighting its way through innumerable challenges but remaining united and strong through it all. Today, more than 60 years after Independence, these fragments are still together, making India probably the most diverse country in the world. So many tiny, little fragments come together as one country. ![]() Guha in his prologue, calls India an ‘unnatural nation’, far too separated by the dimensions of language, religion and caste. ‘India after Gandhi’ is a journey of Independent India- struggling to maintain its democracy, breaking apart due to enormous differences of language and religion among its people, fighting and killing within itself but always coming together again, stronger than ever. As a product of the Indian education system, I couldn’t agree more with both these men and it wasn’t until I read ‘India after Gandhi’ that the magnitude of history I carry with me by way of legacy dawned on me. ![]() He quotes the educationist Krishna Kumar who says that ‘for Indian children, history itself comes to an end with Partition and Independence’. Ramachandra Guha says in the prologue of “India after Gandhi” that in India, history seems to end in 1947. ![]()
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