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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... marked the Mahatma's ascension to un- challenged leadership of the Indian National Congress . ( Gokhale had died earlier , in 1915 , at the shockingly young age of forty - nine . ) The special session of the Con- gress in Calcutta that ...
... marked the Mahatma's ascension to un- challenged leadership of the Indian National Congress . ( Gokhale had died earlier , in 1915 , at the shockingly young age of forty - nine . ) The special session of the Con- gress in Calcutta that ...
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... marked his fiftieth birthday . It was a muted celebration , and the poet Saro- jini Naidu captured the mood well in her birthday greet- ings : " I do not think that personal happiness , comfort , leisure , wealth . . . can have much ...
... marked his fiftieth birthday . It was a muted celebration , and the poet Saro- jini Naidu captured the mood well in her birthday greet- ings : " I do not think that personal happiness , comfort , leisure , wealth . . . can have much ...
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... marked the epochal mo- ment when a world long dominated by imperial powers finally found its own feet . ( He also arranged for an air- craft , Air India's Kashmir Princess , to ferry Chinese diplo- mats to Bandung . The plane was blown ...
... marked the epochal mo- ment when a world long dominated by imperial powers finally found its own feet . ( He also arranged for an air- craft , Air India's Kashmir Princess , to ferry Chinese diplo- mats to Bandung . The plane was blown ...
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accept affairs arrest became become British called caste cause civil close communal Congress critics death decision Delhi demand democratic developing early economic elected English father followed forces foreign freedom Gandhi gave hand harlal Hindu hope idea imperialism independence India interests issue jail Jawa Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal's Jinnah joined largely later leader leadership leading League letter lives London Mahatma Mahatma Gandhi major March marked masses meeting ment mind months Motilal Mountbatten moved movement Muslim nationalist never offer once organized Pakistan party passed Patel political position president prime minister principle prison provinces refused remained resign rule secular seemed serve social sought suggested thought tion took traveling turned United viceroy wrote young
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