50 for 75 – An Independent India Reading List, The Telegraph

In an earlier column (The Telegraph, 13th August), I provided a brief analytical history of India’s democratic institutions since Independence. In this column, I offer a list of non-fiction books that I have myself found useful in understanding the complicated career of our Republic. I would have liked to choose seventy-five books, both in the interests of symmetry and because the reader would have had a greater range of choices. However, listing seventy-five titles and providing even the briefe...