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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... called on assorted members of Allahabad's high society, leaving his card at various English homes. But he made no great mark upon what even his authorized biographer called “the vacuous, parasitic life of upper-middle-class society in ...
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... called Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the principles that would govern cooperation with the Muslim League. Their work, recognizing the principle that decisions would not be taken affecting the interests and beliefs of a minority community without ...
... called Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the principles that would govern cooperation with the Muslim League. Their work, recognizing the principle that decisions would not be taken affecting the interests and beliefs of a minority community without ...
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... called “the united India demand” by the half- 2 hearted Montagu-Chemsford reforms, which even the Moderates found unacceptable, and by the more familiar method of repression. When the outspoken Mrs. Besant was interned by the British ...
... called “the united India demand” by the half- 2 hearted Montagu-Chemsford reforms, which even the Moderates found unacceptable, and by the more familiar method of repression. When the outspoken Mrs. Besant was interned by the British ...
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... called the “Black Act,” and willing to challenge the law in the courts, was dismayed by his son's willingness to disobey it in the streets. They argued furiously about Motilal's conviction that Jawaharlal should not break the law ...
... called the “Black Act,” and willing to challenge the law in the courts, was dismayed by his son's willingness to disobey it in the streets. They argued furiously about Motilal's conviction that Jawaharlal should not break the law ...
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