About the Book: India After 1947 : Reflections and Recollections
Seventy-five years after Independence, India faces stark questions. Some of the
most pressing ones relate to jobs and the cost of living. But questions about
the state of our democracy are equally critical, if not more so. When India won
independence and prepared to become the worlds largest democracy, the people,
through their leaders and elected representatives, looked to create a nation
built on the ideals of equality, liberty, and fraternity. That this seemed a
successful exercise—in a densely populated country with high levels of
illiteracy and poverty, a bewildering variety of religions, castes, and
languages, and a