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100 1 _aAnkit, Rakesh,
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245 1 0 _aIndia in the interim :
_bthe 1947-1951 Nehru government /
_cby Rakesh Ankit.
246 3 0 _a1947-1951 Nehru government
260 _a. - U.K
_bCambridge University press
_c, 2024
300 _a256 pages
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"This book shows a slice of 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"--
650 0 _aInterim governments
_zIndia
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