E-raamat: India in the Interim: The 1947-1951 Government

This book looks at the governmental interregnum from August 1947 to the start of the first general election in October 1951, and is a narrative of some of its intermediate moments in light of contemporary politics. It is a multi-track chronicle, which draws attention to its discrete, if not determining, impact on the following decade of consolidation. While it is also a map of the prime minister's words and actions, drawn as it is mainly from his papers, it is embedded in the government. It describes a time of transitional governance in independent India's early political history and gives a glimpse of its multiple individual traits, identity tensions, and institutional trends. The Nehruvian gaze traced here shows what a constant flux governing in those unsettled post-partition years was.

This archival history of an interim government revisits the time from August 1947 to the start of the first general election in October 1951, and is an episodic narrative of its work. It traces this time of transitional governance, and spotlights its principals, problems, and policies in a bird's-eye view.