India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

Cover
Series
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1. Then and Now, an Introduction
Part I: Fake Socialism, 1947–1964
	2. An Uncertain Beginning
	3. The Path Not Taken
	4. Nehru’s Dangerous Gamble
	5. Nehru Doubles His Bet
	6. Tagore’s Unheard Song
	7. Mr. Nehru’s Tragedy, Democracy’s First Betrayal
Part II: Violence, 1964–1984
	8. Shastri Makes a Brave Transition
	9. A Savior for India’s Ferment
	10. India Has an Empress
	11. Anger Meets Repression
	12. An Autocratic Gamble Fails
	13. Democracy Betrays Again, Deindustrialization Begins
	14. When the Violence Came Home
Part III: The Promise, 1985–2004
	15. A Pilot Flies into Political Headwinds
	16. Rajiv Unleashes the Gale Force of Hindu Nationalism
	17. An All-Too-Brief Moment of Sanity
	18. The Promise Has a Dark Underbelly
	19. No, India Does Not Shine
Part IV: Hubris, 2005 to the Present
	20. As the Two Indias Drift Apart, Democracy Creaks
	21. Modi Pushes the Economy off the Edge
	22. Modi Breaks India’s Fractured Democracy
	23. COVID-19 Bares the Moral Decay
Epilogue: A Feasible Idealism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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