Nehru: The Invention of IndiaNew from Shashi Tharoor, eminent United Nations diplomat and author of India: From Midnight to the Millennium, comes an incisive new biography of the great secularist, Jawaharlal Nehru, 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. 'A well-crafted life of the Indian politician and independence-movement hero... A thoughtful account, likening Nehru to Thomas Jefferson in ways both positive and negative' - Kirkus Reviews |
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Mountbatten received him per- sonally and drove him to a canteen for Indian soldiers , where he was mobbed by the ... Looking around for his hostess , Jawaharlal found Edwina Mountbatten crawling out from under the crowd ; she had been ...
Mountbatten received him per- sonally and drove him to a canteen for Indian soldiers , where he was mobbed by the ... Looking around for his hostess , Jawaharlal found Edwina Mountbatten crawling out from under the crowd ; she had been ...
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The only exception was Gandhi : the Mahatma went to Mountbatten and sug- gested that India could be kept united if Jinnah were of- fered the leadership of the whole country . Jawaharlal and Patel both gave that idea short shrift ...
The only exception was Gandhi : the Mahatma went to Mountbatten and sug- gested that India could be kept united if Jinnah were of- fered the leadership of the whole country . Jawaharlal and Patel both gave that idea short shrift ...
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A more surprising ally was the former viceroy , now governor - general of India , Lord Mountbatten . For all his culpability in rushing India to an inde- pendence drenched in blood , Mountbatten made Nehru partial amends by staying on ...
A more surprising ally was the former viceroy , now governor - general of India , Lord Mountbatten . For all his culpability in rushing India to an inde- pendence drenched in blood , Mountbatten made Nehru partial amends by staying on ...
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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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| العنوان | Nehru: The Invention of India |
| المؤلف | Shashi Tharoor |
| الإصدار | تمت مراجعته |
| الناشر | Arcade Pub., 2003 |
| أصلي من | جامعة ميتشيغان |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 3 أيلول (سبتمبر) 2008 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 155970697X, 9781559706971 |
| عدد الصفحات | 282 من الصفحات |
| تصدير الاقتباس | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |