India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

Table of Contents\nPreface\n1. Then and Now, an Introduction\nPart I: Fake Socialism, 1947–1964\n2. An Uncertain Beginning\n3. The Path Not Taken\n4. Nehru’s Dangerous Gamble\n5. Nehru Doubles His Bet\n6. Tagore’s Unheard Song\n7. Mr. Nehru’s Tragedy, Democracy’s First Betrayal\nPart II: Violence, 1964–1984\n8. Shastri Makes a Brave Transition\n9. A Savior for India’s Ferment\n10. India Has an Empress\n11. Anger Meets Repression\n12. An Autocratic Gamble Fails\n13. Democracy Betrays Again, Deindustrialization Begins\n14. When the Violence Came Home\nPart III: The Promise, 1985–2004\n15. A Pilot Flies into Political Headwinds\n16. Rajiv Unleashes the Gale Force of Hindu Nationalism\n17. An All-Too-Brief Moment of Sanity\n18. The Promise Has a Dark Underbelly\n19. No, India Does Not Shine\nPart IV: Hubris, 2005 to the Present\n20. As the Two Indias Drift Apart, Democracy Creaks\n21. Modi Pushes the Economy off the Edge\n22. Modi Breaks India’s Fractured Democracy\n23. COV ID-19 Bares the Moral Decay\nEpilogue: A Feasible Idealism\nAcknowledgments\nNotes\nIndex