This is a magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations and the glories of the world`s largest and least likely democracy. Ramachandra Guha`s India After Gandhi is a riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have a giant nation, and of teh extraordinary individuals and institutions who have held it together. It is an epic history, peopled by larger-than-life characters, deeply researched and elegantly written, the work of a major scholar at the height of his powers.