[.ca] India After Independence (ISBN 0140278257)

Independent India Captured Alive:
The year 1947 is a momentous year for India. After hundreds of years of repression under the foreign rule, she became free. For the next fifty years till date, India faced all kinds of trials and tribulations. In each experiment of her strength, she succeeded superbly. There was extreme drought, famine and other natural disasters apart from the major man-made calamities.Her neighbours ditched her faith and confidence.They had mistaken her generosity and friendship as weakness and fragility. China and Pakistan waged war against her time and again. But India gave them fitting reply both diplomatically and militarily The West envious of her leaders and potential, supported her enemies both implicitly and explicitly. In spite of her hue and cry frequently for the international co-operation for the peace in the sub-continent,the West chose to support Pakistan. Especially in the United Nations. They had helped Pakistan with arms and ammunitions. On the other hand, Pakistan used all the Western aided arms against India through proxy war and sometimes open aggressions. Weathering these storms of natural and foreign engineered troubles, India marched ahead with its strengths and weaknesses. Especially its billions of populations, millions of illiterate population and other handicappness. The towering personality of Nehru gathered glory for India. His uncompromising democratic principles, scientific approach and secular image added more steel strength to India's development. Prof.Bipan Chandra, Prof.Aditya Mukherjhee and Prof.Mridula Mukherjhee, the teaching fraternity in the History department of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi (India) has come out with a marvelous volume on the history of Independent India. It it a splendid work for many reasons.The most important among them are (1) it is comprehensive and clear history of independent India (2) It covers all the aspects of Indian society (3)the volume gives objective and unbiased account of the Independent India's history. This volume is the best source book for anyone who wants to know the developments of Independent India society whether it is in polity or economy or women's development for the last 54years. Miss not this great work. It goes like well written story. Time will fly. So take the flight to "India after Independence" by Bipin Chandra and others.