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[[File:IndiaFromMidnightToTheMillennium.jpg|thumb|First edition<br>(publ. [[Viking Press|Viking]])]]
'''''India: From Midnight to the Millennium''''' is a book written by [[Shashi Tharoor]] in 1997. It discusses a wide range of topics like [[caste]], [[democracy in India]], [[Indira Gandhi]], the [[partition of India]], and its transition from a [[Socialism|socialist economy]] to a [[free market economy]].

Shashi Tharoor argues compellingly that India stands at the intersection of the most significant questions facing the world at the end of the twentieth century.<ref name="Tharoor site">{{cite web|author=|year=|title=India: From Midnight to Millennium|publisher=tharoor.in|accessdate=2011-11-11|url=http://tharoor.in/books/india-from-midnight-to-the-millenium/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123012201/http://tharoor.in/books/india-from-midnight-to-the-millenium/|archive-date=23 November 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> If [[democracy]] leads to inefficient political infighting, should it be sacrificed in the interest of economic well-being? Does [[religious fundamentalism]] provide a way for countries in the developing world to assert their identity in the face of western hegemony, or is there a case for [[Religious pluralism|pluralism]] and diversity amid cultural and religious traditions? Does the entry of Western consumer goods threaten a country's economic self-sufficiency, and is [[protectionism]] the only guarantee of independence?  The answers to such questions will determine what kind of world the next century will bring, and since Indians will soon account for a [[Demographics of India|sixth of the world's population]], their choices will have repercussions throughout the globe.

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[[Category:Books about politics of India]]
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[[Category:Historiography of India]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian books]]


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