A. Boring political tract

It took a while to realise that this is in the nature of proclamation rather than history, and that’s because the early chapters are quite unexceptionable to a reader who simply wants to know how this phenomenon came about.
There is a survey of Indian history since independence other than ‘Midnight’ children’ in Audible, but it does GO ON!!! However one-sided, the book gives us the early years in good order and later it goes into the mechanics of how much more effectively the grass roots were put to use than were the seedy remains of Congress.
What is made clear at the start is the distinction among Hinduism as a religion/philosophy and Hindustan the cultural entity when polluted with power politics, though, nsmaturally that is not how the tract states its ‘raison d’etre.’
There is a PDF of what must be the most stultifying boringness that gives figures for the results of virtually every state and national election since the war, which is commendable for those who are truly interested, but all you frequently thecreader raises her voice and commands the listener to consult it, and for a reader merely searching for an outline history, there are many unexplained references that just create irritation.
If there were a shorter, more balanced and clearer account than this one don’t hesitate to pass this one over.

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