Before we can figure out where India is going, we need to understand where India is coming from.
And for that, a detailed historical account is needed to understand India.
An excellent book that I am currently reading is Ramachandra Guha's:
India after Gandhi, an excellent account of India after independence.
Of course, India is much older than that, but India got to be a truly cohesive nation only after the British left.
And now many people would object to this, but I think if it were not for the British via their railroads and English, India would have never become a contiguous nation.
They were the first to produce a map that Indians could look at and see the entire India for themselves.
If not for them, India would have remained a concept or a categorization, much like Asia or Europe today is treated.
To learn about the entire history of India, read or watch the wonderful documentary
The Story of India
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