TY - BOOK AU - Tharoor,Shashi TI - India: : from midnight to the millennium SN - 1559708034 U1 - 954.04 PY - 1997///] CY - New York PB - Arcade Publishing KW - India KW - Civilization KW - 1947- N1 - Includes index; Chronology of major events; Map of India; A myth and an idea; Two assassinations and a funeral : the death of a dynasty; Unity, diversity, and other contradictions : from the milk miracle to the malayali miracle; Scheduled castes, unscheduled change; Of Indians and other minorities; NRIs : "Never relinquished India" or "Not really Indian"?; The Hindu rate of growth, and other agnostic legacies; "Better fed than free" : the emergency and other urgencies; India at forty-nine : notes toward an impression of Indian society and culture today; A future without shock ER -