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  India After Gandhi

  The History of the World's Largest Democracy

  by Ramachandra Guha

  Born against a background of privation (read starvations and famines due to British taking away India's wealth and needs of survival including food, a la Irish famines) and massacres due to partition of the nation, independent India emerged, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story—the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories—of the world's largest democracy. ... (more)
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  Time and Realism: Metaphysical and Antimetaphysical Perspectives (Representation and Mind)

  by Yuval Dolev

  How does time pass? Does time itself move, or is time's passage merely an illusion? Analytic philosophers belong, for the most part, to one of two camps on this question: the tensed camp, which defends the reality of time's passage, conceiving the present as "ontologically privileged" over the past and future; and the tenseless camp, which denies time's passage and holds that all events, whatever... (more)