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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... mind and of his vision of the world . In the meantime , the early 1920s found Indian na- tionalism in the doldrums . Gandhi's decision to call off the noncooperation movement was baffling to many Muslim leaders , who saw in his placing ...
... mind and of his vision of the world . In the meantime , the early 1920s found Indian na- tionalism in the doldrums . Gandhi's decision to call off the noncooperation movement was baffling to many Muslim leaders , who saw in his placing ...
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... mind . . . . I was filled with a new excitement . " Such statements would later lead some to see Nehru as a fellow - traveler himself , but the critics overlooked his independence of mind , always his most attractive feature . In a ...
... mind . . . . I was filled with a new excitement . " Such statements would later lead some to see Nehru as a fellow - traveler himself , but the critics overlooked his independence of mind , always his most attractive feature . In a ...
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... minds and hearts , cannot change . But of course it could change : geography was to be hacked , history misread , tradition denied , minds and hearts torn apart . Jawaharlal imagined that the rioting and violence that had racked the ...
... minds and hearts , cannot change . But of course it could change : geography was to be hacked , history misread , tradition denied , minds and hearts torn apart . Jawaharlal imagined that the rioting and violence that had racked the ...
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