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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... father's profession was manifest in his barely passing the bar ex- aminations , but pass them he did , qualifying to practice law in 1912 . About to return home for good at twenty - two , Jawa- harlal Nehru had completed an unremarkable ...
... father's profession was manifest in his barely passing the bar ex- aminations , but pass them he did , qualifying to practice law in 1912 . About to return home for good at twenty - two , Jawa- harlal Nehru had completed an unremarkable ...
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... father's chambers , where his first fee as a young lawyer was the then princely sum of five hundred rupees , offered by one of Motilal's regular clients , the wealthy Rao Maharajsingh . " The first fee your father got , " Motilal noted ...
... father's chambers , where his first fee as a young lawyer was the then princely sum of five hundred rupees , offered by one of Motilal's regular clients , the wealthy Rao Maharajsingh . " The first fee your father got , " Motilal noted ...
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... father at the hill station of Mussoorie . Motilal , who had taken over his jailed son's presidency as Jawaharlal's ... father's fears proved unfounded ; Jawaharlal had another thirty - six years to live . Instead it was Motilal whom ...
... father at the hill station of Mussoorie . Motilal , who had taken over his jailed son's presidency as Jawaharlal's ... father's fears proved unfounded ; Jawaharlal had another thirty - six years to live . Instead it was Motilal whom ...
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