Picking Up the Pieces - Freedom and Parricide ; The Logic of Division ; Apples in the Basket ; A Valley Bloody and Beautiful ; Refugees and the Republic ; Ideas of India ; Nehru's India - The Biggest Gamble in History --Home and the World ; Redrawing the Map ; The Conquest of Nature ; The Law and the Prophets ; Securing Kashmir ; Tribal Trouble ; Shaking the Centre - The Southern Challenge ; The Experience of Defeat ; Peace in Our Time ; Minding the Minorities ; The Rise of Populism - War and Succession ; Leftward Turns ; The Elixir of Victory ; The Rivals ; Autumn of the Matriarch ; Life Without the Congress ; Democracy in Disarray ; This Son also Rises ; A History of Events - Rights ; Riots ; Rulers ; Riches ; A People's Entertainments ; Epilogue - Why India Survives