From Midnight to Glorious Morning? : India Since Independence / Mihir Bose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bose, Mihir, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--History--1947-.

India.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 487 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Haus Publshing Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

In 1917, the British War Cabinet concluded it would take at least 500 years for India to be able to govern itself. Thirty years later, in August 1947, India became a sovereign, free nation. Mihir Bose, born just seven months before India won its freedom, spent much of his life watching as India anxiously awaited news of how much aid it was to receive from the West. Now India is one of the largest exporters of food in the world, sends space probes to Mars and is a rapidly emerging global power. How did a country that many doubted would survive at birth transform into a nation capable of rivalling China and challenging the West? Bose recognises that there is much to celebrate in India's short history of independence. Yet, as this personal and trenchant book shows, there is still a long way to go before the dawn of that hoped-for bright morning. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Defying History

1 The Equator Becomes a Democratic Country 17

2 The Missing Indian Narrative 51

3 In Search of Gandhi 82

4 How Hate Turned to Love 116

5 Modi's Hindu Business 147

6 That Elusive Native Place 160

Part II Chacha's Legacy

7 The Great Indian Trick 177

8 Don't Ask, Don't Tell: The Unique World of Indian Diversity 197

9 The Hidden Truth 230

Part III Phoren, Phoren

10 India's Curious English Burden 243

11 India's Incredible Revenge 262

12 India and America, the Love that Cannot be Expressed 275

13 Sonia and the Forgotten 'Phoren" Women 303

Part IV Business: India's True Exceptionalism

14 The Curious Route to that June Morning 329

15 New and Old in Indian Business 356

16 From Parsi to Marwari: The Very Indian Journey of a Professional Firm 363

Part V Midnight's Legacy

17 Midnight's Children Revisited 371

18 Midnight's Grandchildren 388

19 Sex in the Land of the Kama Sutra 396

20 New Power, New Indians 408.

Notes:

"First published in India by Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd. as From Midnight to Glorious Morning? by Mihir Bose"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-472) and index.

ISBN:

9781910376690

1910376698

OCLC:

979568201

Publisher Number:

99975321508