India after Gandhi

Here's a brilliant review of a brilliant book. I'm reading it currently. While it'll certainly take effort and committment to complete, it is replete with phenomenonal information starting from the time of our independence.

"To comprehend India's achievement, imagine if Mexico became the 51st state of the United States, followed by Brazil, Argentina and the rest of Central and South America. Add Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to give this union the Sunni-Shia mix of India. The population then represented in Congress would still be smaller and less diverse linguistically, religiously, culturally and economically than India's."