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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... party (whose annual sessions, in different venues around India, attracted ever- greater attendance and attention). Its leadership was initially drawn from the educated professional classes, and its presidents, who were elected annually ...
... party (whose annual sessions, in different venues around India, attracted ever- greater attendance and attention). Its leadership was initially drawn from the educated professional classes, and its presidents, who were elected annually ...
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... party elders. As the book explains, Jawaharlal Nehru had a foot in both camps. Outside the Congress, a number of minor parties advanced various particularist interests, of which the main group mentioned in this book is the Liberal Party ...
... party elders. As the book explains, Jawaharlal Nehru had a foot in both camps. Outside the Congress, a number of minor parties advanced various particularist interests, of which the main group mentioned in this book is the Liberal Party ...
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... Party in Punjab, which advanced agrarian interests, and the Krishak Mazdoor Praja Party (Farmers, Workers, and Tenants Party) in Bengal — the League eventually triumphed in its aspirations. This book describes the evolution of the chasm ...
... Party in Punjab, which advanced agrarian interests, and the Krishak Mazdoor Praja Party (Farmers, Workers, and Tenants Party) in Bengal — the League eventually triumphed in its aspirations. This book describes the evolution of the chasm ...
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... Party, was founded after independence as the principal vehicle for their political aspirations. The Sangh merged into the short-lived omnibus party, the Janata, in 1977, and reemerged in 1980 as the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP. Today ...
... Party, was founded after independence as the principal vehicle for their political aspirations. The Sangh merged into the short-lived omnibus party, the Janata, in 1977, and reemerged in 1980 as the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP. Today ...
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... parties, holidays in Kashmir, a plenitude of clothes — a classic Little Lord Fauntleroy upbringing. The allusion is not too far-fetched. There is a studio photograph of Jawaharlal aged five in 1894, attired in a navy blue sailor suit ...
... parties, holidays in Kashmir, a plenitude of clothes — a classic Little Lord Fauntleroy upbringing. The allusion is not too far-fetched. There is a studio photograph of Jawaharlal aged five in 1894, attired in a navy blue sailor suit ...
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