India’s Improbable Success

Issue Date April 2008
Volume 19
Issue 2
Page Numbers 170-178
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A review of India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha and The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence and India’s Future by Martha C. Nussbaum.

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