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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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-1-009-52526-8 (9781009525268)
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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.
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Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Acknowledgements; 1. June 1948-March 1949; 2. April-December 1949; 3. 1950; 4. 'Captain who...steered India...'; 5. 1951; Epilogue; Bibliography.