From Midnight to Glorious Morning?

India Since Independence

Mihir Bose

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Haus
15 January 2018

History; Asian history; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000

Mihir Bose was born in January 1947. Eight months later, India became a modern, free nation. The country he knew growing up in the 1960s has undergone vast and radical change. India today exports food, sends space probes to Mars, and, all too often, Indian businesses rescue their ailing competitors in the West.

In From Midnight to Glorious Morning?, Bose travels the length and breadth of India to explore how a country that many doubted would survive has been transformed into one capable of rivaling China as the world’s preeminent economic superpower. Multifarious challenges still continue to plague the country: although inequality and corruption are issues not unique to India, such a rapid ascent to global prominence creates a precarious position. However, as Bose outlines, this rapid ascent provides evidence that India is ever capable of making great strides in the face of great adversity.

Bose’s penetrating analysis of the last seventy years asks what is yet to be done for India in order to fulfill the destiny with which it has been imbued. The predictions of doom in August 1947 have proved to be unfounded; the growth of the nation in population and capital has been exponential, and there is much to celebrate. But Bose’s nuanced, personal, and trenchant book shows that it is naïve to pretend the hoped-for bright morning has yet dawned.

By: Mihir Bose
Imprint: Haus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781910376690
ISBN 10: 1910376698
Publication Date: 15 January 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Mihir Bose was the BBC's first Sports Editor between 2006 and 2009. Before that he was the Chief Sports Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, where he also wrote on race, immigration and India. He has also written for the Sunday Times, Financial Times, History Today and writes a weekly 'Big Sports Interview' column for the Evening Standard. He is the author of The Spirit of the Game (Constable, 2012).