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Political Legacies, Social Movements, and the Tribulations of India's Democracy - Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India. By Walter Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle. London: C. Hurst and Company, 2019. xxiv, 405 pp. ISBN: 9781787380257. - India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy. By Madhav Khosla. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 219 pp. ISBN: 9780674980877. - Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point. By Gyan Prakash. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 456 pp. ISBN: 9780691186726. - The Paradox of Populism: The Indira Gandhi Years, 1966–1977. By Suhit K. Sen. Chennai: Primus Books, 2019. viii, 294 pp. ISBN: 9789352909421.

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Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India. By Walter Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle. London: C. Hurst and Company, 2019. xxiv, 405 pp. ISBN: 9781787380257.

India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy. By Madhav Khosla. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 219 pp. ISBN: 9780674980877.

Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point. By Gyan Prakash. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 456 pp. ISBN: 9780691186726.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2020

Sumit Ganguly*
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Indiana University Bloomington
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Book Reviews—South Asia
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References

1 Frankel, Francine, India's Political Economy, 1946–2004: The Gradual Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)Google Scholar.