In writing the book, Guha consulted the private papers of several important Indian personalities, as well as newspaper records, housed at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. Guha signed a contract in March 1998, with a delivery date for the book specified for March 2002. He suggested that since Indian historians typically stopped their narratives with Indian independence in 1947, a scholarly analysis of modern Indian history post-independence would be of interest. Straus had read an article by Guha in the Oxford journal Past and Present. In November 1997, Peter Straus, then head of Picador, met Ramachandra Guha and suggested that he write a history of independent India. A revised and expanded edition was published in 2017. The book covers the history of the India after it gained independence from the British in 1947. First published by HarperCollins in August 2007. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha. 898 pp (First Edition), 919 pp (Revised and Updated Edition)
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