Working a Democratic Constitution: A History of the Indian Experience

5 best books like Working a Democratic Constitution: A History of the Indian Experience (Granville Austin): The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity, Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India, India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age, The State of The Nation, A Dose Of Laughter

The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

Author

Amartya Sen

In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is "a bracing sweep through aspects of Indian...

Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India

Author	Ritu Menon
ISBN	0813525527

As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of India remains significant today. While Partition sounds smooth on paper, the reality was horrific. More than eight million people migrated and one million died in the process. The forced migration, violence between Hindus and Muslims, and...

India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age

Author	Gurcharan Das
ISBN	0385720742

India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation's rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history...

The State of The Nation

Author

Fali S. Nariman

A definitive, analytical and meticulous account of the present state of the nation – from a constitutional perspective – by one of India’s most respected legal luminaries.

An ardent defender of the Constitution of India, Fali Nariman has today attained the status of an outstanding...

A Dose Of Laughter

Author	R.K. Laxman
ISBN	0143028936

Although The Times of India was and is still dumb at its best, it was R.K. Laxman's satirical cartoons which had brought smile despite the sad state of the current affairs for the past fifteen years. The above image of a common man was perfectly depicted in them. R.K. Laxman was the younger brother...