The Puffin History of India vol 2, 1947-The Present by Roshen Dalal [Penguin India, 2003], pages: 427.

This book looks at the history of India after independence, and takes the story up to 2003.
List of chapters
1. Republic Day
2. Freedom at last
3. Political conditions--1947
4. The Indian states
5. Integration
6. Partition -- the origins
7. Partition -- the reality
8. Administrative division
9. Building a new country
10. The first eventful year
11. The spirit will survive
12. Towards a republic -- 1948-50
13. Integration -- the second stage
14. A new phase -- the constitution
15. The government
16. The parliament
17. The union executive
18. Government in the states
19. The administrators
20. The judiciary
21. The first elections
22. The main events -- 1950 -57
23. The main events -- 1957 -62
24. Internal development 1947- 1964
25. Vinoba Bhave and Bhudan
26. Foreign policy 1947-64
27. Nehru’s last years
28. Lal Bahadur Shastri
29. Indira Gandhi -- the early years
30. Indira takes control
31. Bangladesh
32. The centre and the states: 1966-75
33. Jayaprakash Narayan
34. The Emergency
35. Janata government 1977-79
36. Indira Gandhi 1980-84
37. Internal development: 1966-1984
38. Foreign policy 1966-1984
39. Rajiv Gandhi
40. Internal development under Rajiv
41. Rajiv Gandhi -- foreign policy
42. Minority governments -- 1989-90
43. Narasimha Rao -- 1991-96
44. Foreign policy --1991-96
45. A new government: 1996-98
46. The Bharatiya Janata Party
47. The National Democratic Alliance
48. The National Democratic Alliance again
49. Foreign policy - after 1998
50. The States
51. The People: 1947-2002
52. Economy and Development
53. Social Change
54. Art and Culture
55. The Future
Appendices