India in the Interim

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-52526-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

This book looks at the governmental interregnum from August 1947 to the start of the first general election in October 1951, and is a narrative of some of its intermediate moments in light of contemporary politics. It is a multi-track chronicle, which draws attention to its discrete, if not determining, impact on the following decade of consolidation. While it is also a map of the prime minister's words and actions, drawn as it is mainly from his papers, it is embedded in the government. It describes a time of transitional governance in independent India's early political history and gives a glimpse of its multiple individual traits, identity tensions, and institutional trends. The Nehruvian gaze traced here shows what a constant flux governing in those unsettled post-partition years was.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ankit, Rakesh

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; 1. June 1948–March 1949; 2. April–December 1949; 3. 1950; 4. 'Captain who…steered India…'; 5. 1951; Epilogue; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Ankit, Rakesh
Rakesh Ankit is a Lecturer in History and International Politics, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He is the author of India in the Interregnum: Interim Government, September 1946-August 1947 (Oxford University Press, 2019). His research interests lie in International Relations, Politics and History.