New Delhi: A new book looks at India’s formative decade after Independence, shedding light on the interplay between democratic ideals and ruthless power play and how it shaped the Indian Republic.
In ‘1947-1957, India: the Birth of a Republic’, author and historian Chandrachur Ghose looks at the transition of power, the drafting of the Constitution, and the establishment of the governing apparatus. And also at the conflict of ideologies between parties and individuals and ‘the beginning of the disintegration of the Congress and the consolidation of political forces in the opposition’ along with Jawaharlal Nehru’s struggle with existential issues at home and his pursuit of peace around the world.
Published by Penguin India, ‘1947-1957, India: the Birth of a Republic’, will be released on 28 August on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.
Chandrachur Ghose is an author, researcher and commentator on history, economics and the environment.
In his book, he offers a glimpse into the criticisms and debates that followed the making of the Constitution and how Dr B.R. Ambedkar eloquently defended its federal structure leading to its adoption on 26 January, 1950.
‘Thought-provoking, argumentative and unputdownable, ‘1947-1957, India: The Birth of a Republic’ is a must-read for anyone interested in Indian political history, Penguin India says about the book.
Ghose’s 2022 book ‘Bose: The Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist’ is a national bestseller. He has also co-authored ‘Conundrum: Subhas Bose’s Life after Death’ which is an Amazon bestseller.
Ghose was a founding member of the pressure group “Mission Netaji”, which was instrumental in getting Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s secret records declassified. In 2010, his activism resulted in the declassification of more than 10,000 pages.
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