Nehru: The Invention of India“Tharoor writes with shrewd wit and cautious ambivalence about Nehru, whom he admires as the Thomas Jefferson of India...[an] engaging short biography.” —Publishers Weekly 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. “A good summing up of Nehru’s triumphs and failures...Tharoor’s style is smooth and pleasant.” —The New York Times Book Review “How Tharoor achieves such lucidity along with scholarly exigence is absolutely remarkable.” —Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature |
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... who had passionate socialist convictions; an Anglicized product of Harrow and Cambridge who spent almost ten years in British jails; an agnostic radical who became an unlikely protégé of the saintly Mahatma Gandhi — was India.
... who had passionate socialist convictions; an Anglicized product of Harrow and Cambridge who spent almost ten years in British jails; an agnostic radical who became an unlikely protégé of the saintly Mahatma Gandhi — was India.
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... the latter pursuing their goals through constitutional means while seeking fundamental reforms leading to self-government. This schism ended around the time of the First World War. The advent of Mahatma Gandhi, who returned to India ...
... the latter pursuing their goals through constitutional means while seeking fundamental reforms leading to self-government. This schism ended around the time of the First World War. The advent of Mahatma Gandhi, who returned to India ...
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Muslim unity, Gandhi committed the party to supporting the Khilafat movement, which organized anti-British demonstrations ... By the turn of the decade, though, both groups had reunited under Mahatma Gandhi's leadership to demand full ...
Muslim unity, Gandhi committed the party to supporting the Khilafat movement, which organized anti-British demonstrations ... By the turn of the decade, though, both groups had reunited under Mahatma Gandhi's leadership to demand full ...
الصفحة
... bespectacled lawyer wearing coarse homespun, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who in 1915 had returned to India from a ... and his morally charged leadership of the Indian diaspora had earned him the sobriquet of Mahatma (“Great Soul”).
... bespectacled lawyer wearing coarse homespun, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who in 1915 had returned to India from a ... and his morally charged leadership of the Indian diaspora had earned him the sobriquet of Mahatma (“Great Soul”).
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Gandhi's singular insight was that self-government would never be achieved by the resolutions passed by a self-regarding ... To put his principles into practice, the Mahatma lived a simple life of near-absolute poverty in an ashram and ...
Gandhi's singular insight was that self-government would never be achieved by the resolutions passed by a self-regarding ... To put his principles into practice, the Mahatma lived a simple life of near-absolute poverty in an ashram and ...
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معاينة المستخدمين - danoomistmatiste - LibraryThingAnother well written piece from this author. Provides some detailed insights into the life of this great man. A truly international figure who left an indelible mark on both the Gloabal and National ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
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معاينة المستخدمين - dmcolon - LibraryThingTharoor's biography of Nehru starts out a bit slow, but ends as an engaging meditation on the life of one of India's founding fathers. Tharoor does a thorough job chronicling Nehru's early years as a ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
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