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India’s journey from an unformed pre-modern nation to a stable and fulsome democracy, leaping higher into the global with giddy buoyancy, has been neither facile nor ordinary. The challenges have been exceptional. Today, India is an exemplar amongst post-colonial democracies – a flourishing multiplicity of peoples, a raring economy, a stable of the best IT thoroughbreds, an assured nuclear power knocking hard at the doors of the UN Security Council. Its economic reforms of the 90s – liberalization, privatization and globalization – have fundamentally altered its image. They have put India at the global centrestage.
While John Strachey and Winston Churchill were quick to predict the collapse of the entity that emerged from colonial rule in 1947, sundered and bloodied, John Kenneth Galbraith, Kennedy’s ambassador to India in the formative and critical early 60s called it a ‘functional anarchy’. Yet, despite fault lines of caste, class, creed, religion and tongue, the country, time and again, has affirmed the larger faiths Indians have imbued her with; in many ways, the sum of their common benefits has far outweighed their cumulated contradictions.
This book documents this journey – in text and images – over the last sixty years. Divided into six decades, each section encapsulates the high points of each decade in various fields of development: politics, foreign policy, economy, science and technology, art and culture, cinema and sports, with an incisive insight.
ISBN - 9788189636432
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Pages : 144
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