Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. Then and Now, an Introduction 1
5. Part I: Fake Socialism, 1947–1964
6. 2. An Uncertain Beginning 25
7. 3. The Path Not Taken 35
8. 4. Nehru’s Dangerous Gamble 53
9. 5. Nehru Doubles His Bet 73
10. 6. Tagore’s Unheard Song 82
11. 7. Mr. Nehru’s Tragedy, Democracy’s First Betrayal 96
12. Part II: Violence, 1964–1984
13. 8. Shastri Makes a Brave Transition 113
14. 9. A Savior for India’s Ferment 124
15. 10. India Has an Empress 141
16. 11. Anger Meets Repression 157
17. 12. An Autocratic Gamble Fails 172
18. 13. Democracy Betrays Again, Deindustrialization Begins 187
19. 14. When the Violence Came Home 207
20. Part III: The Promise, 1985–2004
21. 15. A Pilot Flies into Political Headwinds 217
22. 16. Rajiv Unleashes the Gale Force of Hindu Nationalism 233
23. 17. An All-Too-Brief Moment of Sanity 247
24. 18. The Promise Has a Dark Underbelly 266
25. 19. No, India Does Not Shine 280
26. Part IV: Hubris, 2005 to the Present
27. 20. As the Two Indias Drift Apart, Democracy Creaks 307
28. 21. Modi Pushes the Economy off the Edge 331
29. 22. Modi Breaks India’s Fractured Democracy 355
30. 23. COV ID-19 Bares the Moral Decay 378
31. Epilogue: A Feasible Idealism 398
32. Acknowledgments 409
33. Notes 413
34. Index 491