: Ramachandra Guha: 50 books that tell the story of 75 years of Indian independence #IndiaNEWS In an earlier column, I provided a brief analytical history of India’s democratic institutions since Independence.

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Ramachandra Guha: 50 books that tell the story of 75 years of Indian independence #IndiaNEWS
In an earlier column, I provided a brief analytical history of India’s democratic institutions since Independence. In this column, I offer a list of non-fiction books that I have myself found useful in understanding the complicated career of our Republic. I would have liked to choose 75 books, both in the interests of symmetry and because the reader would have had a greater range of choices. However, listing 75 titles and providing even the briefest explanations for each was not feasible within the word limit of this column.So I have picked 50. I have restricted myself to the period after 1947; this is an “Independent India� rather than “Indian History� reading list. The date of first publication for each book is given in parentheses.I begin with Granville Austin’s The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Republic (1966), a landmark work on the debates that went into the framing of the Constitution. To be read alongside is Niraja Gopal Jayal’s Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History (2013), which has a longer time frame and a more sociological approach.The most important development of our first decade as a free nation included the integration of the princely states and the creation of linguistic states. The best book on the first theme remains...Read more

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