Ramachandra Guha -India After Gandhi

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Finish reading Ramachandra Guha – India After Gandhi .Its a book ( around 900 pages ) about India history after Independence 1947 – 2008 .Very Interesting to read & to know what has happened after British left India .

During India – Pakistan partition

Leaders who divided the map forgot to handle or have no idea of how people from both parts will migrate. In this mass migration thousands of people died due to communal violence.

Indian Constitution

Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, work for India constitution which is believed to be one of the largest in the world. Dr.B.R.Amberkar is one of the non congress ministers in Jawaharlal Nehru Congress cabinet.

Kashmir Issue

Even in one time the American government offer the King of Kashmir to Join USA !!!

Why India is separated based on Language ?

Potti Sriramulu a single man from Andhra Pradesh , death caused for separating India based on language .Its hard to believe , but it’s the fact .Then why in north India most of the Hindi speaking state like Bihar , UP , MP has not formed as a single state

Hindi as a national Language ?

Jawaharlal Nehru thought to unit India by language , his argument is Hindi is the most spoken language in India .C.N.Anna Durai later the first DMK chief minister of Tamil Nadu asked if that is the case then Crow Should be the national Bird , it’s the most common seen bird in India , then Why you have choose Peacock ??!!!

Many more interesting fact in this book ...

History cannot be written as we want but as it happen !! It’s well written by Ramachandra Guha

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