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The politics of independent India are addressed in Judith M. Brown, Nehru: A Political Life (2003); Paul R. Brass, The Politics of India Since Independence (1990); C.P. Bhambhri, Politics in India, 1947–1987 (1988); Mark Tully and Zareer Masani, From Raj to Rajiv: 40 Years of Indian Independence (also published as India: Forty Years of Independence, 1988); T.V. Paul, The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry (2005); Stuart Corbridge, Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism, and Popular Democracy, 2nd ed. (2003). Studies on particular topics include S.K. Gupta, The Scheduled Castes in Modern Indian Politics (1985), on the emergence of Dalits (former “untouchables”) to political power; Susan Bayly, Caste, Society, and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age (2001); Francine R. Frankel, India's Political Economy, 1947–2004: The Gradual Revolution, 2nd ed. (2006); Robert Jackson, South Asian Crisis: India, Pakistan, Bangla Desh (1975); Henry C. Hart (ed.), Indira Gandhi's India: A Political System Reappraised (1976), focusing on the events of 1975; Dilip Hiro, Inside India Today, rev. ed. (1978), a journalist's investigation into Mrs. Gandhi's emergency; and Ved Mehta, A Family Affair: India Under Three Prime Ministers (1982), an account of Indian politics from 1975 to the early 1980s. Sumit Ganguly and Neil Devotta (eds.), Understanding Contemporary India (2003), provides a survey of recent history, culture, and politics. Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian (2005), is a study of social and political dialogue by the economist and Nobel Laureate. Two more recent general surveys are Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, A Concise History of Modern India, 2nd ed. (2006); and Edward Luce, In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India (2006).


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