The book gives a healthy idea how India has been growing since we got independent. Mr. Ramachandra Guha describes how India was born, how partition took place, how India made its constitution, how we have been overcoming all the challenges of nation building and so on and so forth. This book talks about the legitimacy of our constituent assembly, pros and cons of the important decisions of the prime ministers, disputes related to our physical border. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF INDIA this book you have to go through once. If you want to know, why today’s India is this, why we have this(what we’re having today) foreign policy, you’ll surely find all the answers here.