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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... Pandit” copyright 1962 by Ogden Nash. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Excerpt from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1923, 1969 by Henry ...
... Pandit” copyright 1962 by Ogden Nash. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Excerpt from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1923, 1969 by Henry ...
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... ) Vijayalakshmi ( 1900-1990 ) . m . Krishna ( 1907-1967 ) . m . Ranjit Pandit ( 1893-1944 ) G. P. Hutheesing ( 1906-1992 ) Sanjay ( 1946-1980 ) m . Maneka Anand ( 1957- ) Rahul ( b . 1970 ) Priyanka ( b . 1972 ) Feroze Varun ( b . 1980 )
... ) Vijayalakshmi ( 1900-1990 ) . m . Krishna ( 1907-1967 ) . m . Ranjit Pandit ( 1893-1944 ) G. P. Hutheesing ( 1906-1992 ) Sanjay ( 1946-1980 ) m . Maneka Anand ( 1957- ) Rahul ( b . 1970 ) Priyanka ( b . 1972 ) Feroze Varun ( b . 1980 )
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... , it was said, gave him great powers. One of the travelers, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, informed the yogi that Motilal's greatest desire in life was to have a son. The yogi asked Motilal to “With Little to Commend Me”: 1889–1912.
... , it was said, gave him great powers. One of the travelers, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, informed the yogi that Motilal's greatest desire in life was to have a son. The yogi asked Motilal to “With Little to Commend Me”: 1889–1912.
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... Pandit Din Dayal Shastri, argued respectfully with the yogi. The ancient Hindu shastras, he said, made it clear that there was nothing irreversible about such a fate; a great karmayogi like him could simply grant the unfortunate man a ...
... Pandit Din Dayal Shastri, argued respectfully with the yogi. The ancient Hindu shastras, he said, made it clear that there was nothing irreversible about such a fate; a great karmayogi like him could simply grant the unfortunate man a ...
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... Pandit, the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly), was born on August 18, 1900. On Jawaharlal's sixteenth birthday, another ill-fated boy was born; he died within a month, the third of Motilal's four sons to fail ...
... Pandit, the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly), was born on August 18, 1900. On Jawaharlal's sixteenth birthday, another ill-fated boy was born; he died within a month, the third of Motilal's four sons to fail ...
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