TY - BOOK AU - Meghaa Gupta TI - After midnight: a history of independent India SN - 9780143458760 U1 - 954 PY - 2022/// CY - Gurugram PB - Penguin Random House KW - history KW - India N2 - At The Time Of Independence, Few Believed That A Country Made Up Of British Provinces And Over 500 Princely States Could Survive As A Nation, Even For A Few Years. That A Land Stripped Of Its Riches, Wracked By Disease And Famine, And Divided Along Tense Communal Lines Could Thrive In Its Aspirations. Yet, In The 75 Years Since Independence, India Has Grown Beyond Anyone's Expectation ER -