Nehru: The Invention of IndiaArcade Pub., 2003 - 282 من الصفحات New 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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... Civil Service , but his modest level of academic achieve- ment made it clear he stood no chance of succeeding in the demanding ICS examinations . Had he joined the ICS , a career in the upper reaches of the civil service might have ...
... Civil Service , but his modest level of academic achieve- ment made it clear he stood no chance of succeeding in the demanding ICS examinations . Had he joined the ICS , a career in the upper reaches of the civil service might have ...
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... Civil disobedience seemed the only answer . The government decided not to wait for what Jawa- harlal might do . They arrested him on October 30 , 1940 and , after a trial distinguished by a magnificent state- ment by the accused ( " it ...
... Civil disobedience seemed the only answer . The government decided not to wait for what Jawa- harlal might do . They arrested him on October 30 , 1940 and , after a trial distinguished by a magnificent state- ment by the accused ( " it ...
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... civil servants ' work for them , " one diplomat recalled ruefully . “ I suppose it gave him vicarious satisfaction to beat them at their own game noting , drafting , replying to every kind of let- ter .... His love for the quick ...
... civil servants ' work for them , " one diplomat recalled ruefully . “ I suppose it gave him vicarious satisfaction to beat them at their own game noting , drafting , replying to every kind of let- ter .... His love for the quick ...
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