The focus of this book is to describe all major political developments of India of the last seventy years and the narrative of politics has been around Prime Ministers beginning with Jawaharlal Nehru [1947-1964] to Narendra Modi [2014-]. The specificity of this volume is to understand politics by keeping in sharp focus “continuities and changes” during seventy years of Independent India. Explanations have been attempted to understand special developments in Indian politics like globalization, Hindutva and coalition governments.