Who wrote 'India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy'?

"India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy" is a history book by Ramachandra Guha, first published in 2007. It tells the story of independent India from 1947 onwards.

About the book:

It covers Partition and the integration of the princely states, the making of the Constitution, the reorganisation of states on linguistic lines, the Nehru years, the wars with China and Pakistan, the Emergency, economic reforms and the rise of coalition politics.

It explains how India survived as a united democracy despite great diversity and many challenges.

It received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English in 2011, and an updated edition was published for its tenth anniversary.

About Ramachandra Guha:

• He was born in 1958 in Dehradun (now in Uttarakhand).
• He is a historian, biographer and columnist, known for his work on environmental history, cricket and modern India.

His other books include:

• "The Unquiet Woods" (on the Chipko movement and forest history).
• "Gandhi Before India" (2013) and "Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948" (2018).
• "A Corner of a Foreign Field" (on Indian cricket history).
• "The Commonwealth of Cricket" and "Democrats and Dissenters".
• He received the Padma Bhushan in 2009.

Other important books on modern Indian history:

• "India's Struggle for Independence": Bipan Chandra and others.
• "The Idea of India": Sunil Khilnani (1997).
• "From Plassey to Partition": Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.
• "An Era of Darkness": Shashi Tharoor (on British rule).

Why not the other options?

• ✗Bipan Chandra wrote "India's Struggle for Independence".
• ✗Sunil Khilnani wrote "The Idea of India" and "Incarnations".
• ✗Shashi Tharoor wrote "An Era of Darkness" and "The Great Indian Novel".