India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha.
[3] In November 1997, Peter Straus, then head of Picador, met Ramachandra Guha and suggested that he write a history of independent India.
[4] In writing the book, Guha consulted the private papers of several important Indian personalities, as well as newspaper records, housed at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
The private papers of Indian independence activist and politician C Rajagopalachari and P N Haksar, Indira Gandhi's principal secretary 1967 and 1973, were especially useful to Guha's research.
The Tamil version of the book is published in the name Indhiya varalaaru Gandhikku pin - Part 1 & 2 by Kizhakku and translated by R. P. Sarathy.