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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... wrote . " It seemed absolutely im- moral , indecent ; to use public school language , it was the height of bad form . I realized then , more vividly than I had ever done before , how brutal and immoral imperial- ism was and how it had ...
... wrote . " It seemed absolutely im- moral , indecent ; to use public school language , it was the height of bad form . I realized then , more vividly than I had ever done before , how brutal and immoral imperial- ism was and how it had ...
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... wrote to a Muslim friend that “ what is required in India most is a course of study of Bertrand Russell's books . " The atheist rationalism of the British philosopher was to remain a profound influence ; religion , Nehru wrote , was a ...
... wrote to a Muslim friend that “ what is required in India most is a course of study of Bertrand Russell's books . " The atheist rationalism of the British philosopher was to remain a profound influence ; religion , Nehru wrote , was a ...
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... wrote an abject letter of apology to " my dear Bapuji ” ( a term he had be- gun using for Gandhi , connoting filial devotion ) : " Am I not your child in politics , though perhaps a truant and errant child ? " The Mahatma was disarmed ...
... wrote an abject letter of apology to " my dear Bapuji ” ( a term he had be- gun using for Gandhi , connoting filial devotion ) : " Am I not your child in politics , though perhaps a truant and errant child ? " The Mahatma was disarmed ...
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