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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الصفحة 51
... refusal to play the pa- tronage game . He cut through much of the self - serving cant that surrounded officialdom , refusing to declare a holiday on the anniversary of the Amritsar Massacre be- cause he believed the staff was more ...
... refusal to play the pa- tronage game . He cut through much of the self - serving cant that surrounded officialdom , refusing to declare a holiday on the anniversary of the Amritsar Massacre be- cause he believed the staff was more ...
الصفحة 53
... refused to meet his old mentor . The rebellion was short - lived and did not derive from any fundamental differences over the na- tional question , but it was revealing nonetheless . Jawa- harlal left India as Motilal Nehru's son and ...
... refused to meet his old mentor . The rebellion was short - lived and did not derive from any fundamental differences over the na- tional question , but it was revealing nonetheless . Jawa- harlal left India as Motilal Nehru's son and ...
الصفحة 88
... refused . He was arrested on December 26 , 1931 and , early in the New Year , sentenced to the usual two years ' rigorous imprisonment and a five - hundred- rupee fine . ( Once again he refused to pay the fine , and the authorities ...
... refused . He was arrested on December 26 , 1931 and , early in the New Year , sentenced to the usual two years ' rigorous imprisonment and a five - hundred- rupee fine . ( Once again he refused to pay the fine , and the authorities ...
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معلومات المراجع
| 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 |