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India: from midnight to the millennium by Shashi Tharoor

India: from midnight to the millennium by Shashi Tharoor

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First published in 1997, India: From Midnight to the Millennium offers a sweeping and vividly written reflection on India’s first fifty years since independence, from 1947 to the late 1990s, blending essay, memoir, polemic, and historical insight. Tharoor explores a range of topics: the political evolution of India's democratic republic, the Emergency under Indira Gandhi, the legacy and partition of 1947, economic shifts from socialism and the License Raj to liberalization, and social dynamics across caste, religion, and regional diversity.

He highlights India’s remarkable cultural and linguistic diversity (17 major languages, over 2 22,000 dialects), ongoing literacy challenges, and its emergence as a global player with soft power rooted in Bollywood, diaspora, and pluralistic values. Tharoor critiques the inefficiencies of early economic policies while expressing optimism about the country’s capabilities, stressing that India’s democratic experiment—though imperfect—has the resilience to solve its manifold challenges.

He confronts the rise of Hindu nationalism and the tension between secular pluralism and identity-based politics. Importantly, the book argues that India’s choices—from economic policy to religious tolerance—carry implications not just domestically but globally, given its potential influence as a populous and democratic power by the turn of the millennium

About the Author — 

Shashi Tharoor is an Indian writer, diplomat, and politician. He served at the United Nations—including as Under‑Secretary‑General—and later held political office as a Member of Parliament and Minister in the Indian government. A prolific author of more than twenty books in fiction and non‑fiction—including The Great Indian Novel, An Era of Darkness, and Why I Am a Hindu—he has won awards such as the Sahitya Akademi and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and serves as a leading public intellectual bridging India’s past, present, and future narratives

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