Indian Politics (Pack Of 2 Books): What If There Was No Congress: The Uncensored History of Independent India | No Holds Barred: My Years in Politics

1. What If There Was No Congress: The Uncensored History of Independent India :-

In the Winter Session of Parliament in February 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posed a question, ‘What if there was no Congress in India?’ This question reflected the sentiments expressed by Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 in what was perhaps the last letter written by him. He wrote three days before his assassination that the Congress in its current form had ‘outlived its use’ and should be disbanded.

What would Bharat of today be like had Mahatma Gandhi’s call for disbandment of the Congress been heeded? The book revisits some of the key events that shaped India’s political history over the last 80 years—Partition, Kashmir, governance, scams, democracy and its interruptions, economic policy, intellectual colonization and foreign policy.

India’s modern-day history has been told to suit a particular political narrative. But it’s imperative that history be retold with fairness and accuracy in order to learn from the mistakes of the past. The current generation demands and deserves solutions to historical wrongs. Indians need to be presented with raw, unbiased, unfiltered, historically accurate information so that they can use their own judgement and walk the path towards the new India.

This is the first-ever rethink of how different India would have been, if not for the Congress party being at the helm for the most part of the last 80 years. More importantly, the book is also a roadmap to the India of tomorrow.

2. No Holds Barred: My Years in Politics :-

Early in 1999, when Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray decided to instal a new chief minister in Maharashtra, he was asked who the man of his choice was. New CM? Narayan Rane, he replied, as though the question need not even have arisen. His pick was a mass leader who had first caught his attention as a teenager in a Mumbai suburb when Thackeray had just started his party in the 1960s. The committed Shiv Sainik with close access to the supremo, however, stormed out of the party and joined the Congress in 2005. In the years that followed, he was a powerful fixture in the cabinet of one of India s most politically significant states always with a fighting chance of making a comeback as chief minister, and perennially holding out an existential threat not only to his one-time bosses in the Shiv Sena but also the leaders of his own party. Today, having broken from the Congress too and been elected to the Rajya Sabha on a Bharatiya Janata Party nomination, he remains as unpredictable and aggressive as ever. In No Holds Barred, Narayan Rane looks back on the years he has spent in the dog-eat-dog world of Indian politics. Packed with revealing stories of his encounters with the who s who of the game in Maharashtra and at the Centre ranging from the Thackerays, Pramod Mahajan, Gopinath Munde, Manohar Joshi, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Ashok Chavan and Devendra Fadnavis to Sharad Pawar, Ahmed Patel and Rahul and Sonia Gandhi this is a truly candid and fearless tell-all that exposes the true nature of India s corridors of power.