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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The Invention of India Shashi Tharoor. To Kofi Annan, who, as a young man in Ghana, admired Nehru, this book is dedicated with respect and affection Contents Preface A Note on Indian Political Movements The Nehru.
The Invention of India Shashi Tharoor. To Kofi Annan, who, as a young man in Ghana, admired Nehru, this book is dedicated with respect and affection Contents Preface A Note on Indian Political Movements The Nehru.
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The Invention of India Shashi Tharoor. Contents Preface A Note on Indian Political Movements The Nehru Family Tree : Five Generations 1 " With Little to Commend Me " : 1889-1912 2 " Greatness Is Being Thrust upon Me " : 1912-1921 3 " To ...
The Invention of India Shashi Tharoor. Contents Preface A Note on Indian Political Movements The Nehru Family Tree : Five Generations 1 " With Little to Commend Me " : 1889-1912 2 " Greatness Is Being Thrust upon Me " : 1912-1921 3 " To ...
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The Invention of India Shashi Tharoor. stood for or not. What India is today, both for good and for ill, we owe in great measure to one man. This is his story. A Note on Indian Political Movements T his movements book.
The Invention of India Shashi Tharoor. stood for or not. What India is today, both for good and for ill, we owe in great measure to one man. This is his story. A Note on Indian Political Movements T his movements book.
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... movement for complete independence. In order to engage the Muslim masses and to promote HinduMuslim unity, Gandhi committed the party to supporting the Khilafat movement, A Note on Indian Political Movements.
... movement for complete independence. In order to engage the Muslim masses and to promote HinduMuslim unity, Gandhi committed the party to supporting the Khilafat movement, A Note on Indian Political Movements.
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... movement, which organized anti-British demonstrations around India clamoring for the restoration of the Caliphate in the defeated Ottoman Turkey. The victory of the secular republican Kemal Ataturk in the Turkish civil war rendered that ...
... movement, which organized anti-British demonstrations around India clamoring for the restoration of the Caliphate in the defeated Ottoman Turkey. The victory of the secular republican Kemal Ataturk in the Turkish civil war rendered that ...
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