India in the Interim

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009525263
• ISBN13: 9781009525268
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"