Nehru: The Invention of IndiaSimon and Schuster, 17/10/2011 - 304 من الصفحات Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist 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. The man who would one day help topple British rule and become India’s first prime minister started out as a surprisingly unremarkable student. Born into a wealthy, politically influential Indian family in the waning years of the Raj, Jawaharlal Nehru was raised on Western secularism and the humanist ideas of the Enlightenment. Once he met Gandhi in 1916, Nehru threw himself into the nonviolent struggle for India’s independence, a struggle that wasn’t won until 1947. India had found a perfect political complement to her more spiritual advocate, but neither Nehru nor Gandhi could prevent the horrific price for independence: partition. This fascinating biography casts an unflinching eye on Nehru’s heroic efforts for, and stewardship of, independent India and gives us a careful appraisal of his legacy to the world. |
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... Jawaharlal's tutor Brooks having been a disciple of a notorious pederast), that they are difficult to take seriously ... Jawaharlal had indeed been inclined that way. Nor did any chroniclers of the adult Nehru, including enemies who ...
... Jawaharlal's tutor Brooks having been a disciple of a notorious pederast), that they are difficult to take seriously ... Jawaharlal had indeed been inclined that way. Nor did any chroniclers of the adult Nehru, including enemies who ...
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... until his marriage — arranged, of course, by his father — in February 1916. Father and son had dealt with the subject of marriage in their transcontinental correspondence, but Motilal had given short shrift to Jawaharlal's.
... until his marriage — arranged, of course, by his father — in February 1916. Father and son had dealt with the subject of marriage in their transcontinental correspondence, but Motilal had given short shrift to Jawaharlal's.
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... Jawaharlal's mild demurrals whenever the matter was broached. In a letter to his mother Jawaharlal had even suggested he might prefer to remain unmarried rather than plight his troth to someone he did not like: “I accept that any girl ...
... Jawaharlal's mild demurrals whenever the matter was broached. In a letter to his mother Jawaharlal had even suggested he might prefer to remain unmarried rather than plight his troth to someone he did not like: “I accept that any girl ...
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... Jawaharlal stepped on a pile of fresh snow: “it gave way and down I went into a huge and yawning crevasse.... But the rope held and I clutched to [sic] the side of the crevasse and was pulled out.” Jawaharlal Nehru had not been saved ...
... Jawaharlal stepped on a pile of fresh snow: “it gave way and down I went into a huge and yawning crevasse.... But the rope held and I clutched to [sic] the side of the crevasse and was pulled out.” Jawaharlal Nehru had not been saved ...
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... Jawaharlal should not break the law because doing so would make him a criminal. But Jawaharlal was not swayed. His apparent determination to follow Gandhi's call first appalled, then moved, his father: Motilal, who thought the very idea ...
... Jawaharlal should not break the law because doing so would make him a criminal. But Jawaharlal was not swayed. His apparent determination to follow Gandhi's call first appalled, then moved, his father: Motilal, who thought the very idea ...
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