Nehru: The Invention of IndiaSimon and Schuster, 17/10/2011 - 304 من الصفحات Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist who—alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi—led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would one day help topple British rule and become India’s first prime minister started out as a surprisingly unremarkable student. Born into a wealthy, politically influential Indian family in the waning years of the Raj, Jawaharlal Nehru was raised on Western secularism and the humanist ideas of the Enlightenment. Once he met Gandhi in 1916, Nehru threw himself into the nonviolent struggle for India’s independence, a struggle that wasn’t won until 1947. India had found a perfect political complement to her more spiritual advocate, but neither Nehru nor Gandhi could prevent the horrific price for independence: partition. This fascinating biography casts an unflinching eye on Nehru’s heroic efforts for, and stewardship of, independent India and gives us a careful appraisal of his legacy to the world. |
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... India's — independence, a moody, the idealist intellectual who felt an almost mystical empathy with the toiling ... India. Upon the Mahatma's assassination, Nehru became the keeper of the national flame, the most visible embodiment of ...
... India's — independence, a moody, the idealist intellectual who felt an almost mystical empathy with the toiling ... India. Upon the Mahatma's assassination, Nehru became the keeper of the national flame, the most visible embodiment of ...
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... India — democratic institution-building, staunch pan- Indian secularism, socialist economics at home, and a foreign policy of nonalignment — all of which were integral to a vision of Indianness that is fundamentally contested today ...
... India — democratic institution-building, staunch pan- Indian secularism, socialist economics at home, and a foreign policy of nonalignment — all of which were integral to a vision of Indianness that is fundamentally contested today ...
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The Invention of India Shashi Tharoor. A. Note. on. Indian. Political. Movements. This. movements book mentions of a number of Indian political parties and importance to understanding Jawaharlal Nehru's life and times and appreciating his ...
The Invention of India Shashi Tharoor. A. Note. on. Indian. Political. Movements. This. movements book mentions of a number of Indian political parties and importance to understanding Jawaharlal Nehru's life and times and appreciating his ...
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... India's Muslims. Though various regional parties sought to transcend the Congress- League divide by including ... India and Pakistan, when the British left in 1947. One other political movement deserves mention. Hindutva, literally ...
... India's Muslims. Though various regional parties sought to transcend the Congress- League divide by including ... India and Pakistan, when the British left in 1947. One other political movement deserves mention. Hindutva, literally ...
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... India — conscious that their origins, their modest numbers, their high social standing, and their pale, fine-featured looks all made them special — they were proud of their pan-Indian outlook. They had, after all, left their original ...
... India — conscious that their origins, their modest numbers, their high social standing, and their pale, fine-featured looks all made them special — they were proud of their pan-Indian outlook. They had, after all, left their original ...
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