India in the Interim: The 1947–1951 Government (PDF)

By Rakesh Ankit 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.
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 2, 2025
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1009525263
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1009525268