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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... nationalism of Tilak and the Extremists, criticizing his father for being “immoderately moderate.” Years later he ... nationalist agitation, with the Sinn Fein movement and Irish calls for a boycott of British goods reinforcing his ...
... nationalism of Tilak and the Extremists, criticizing his father for being “immoderately moderate.” Years later he ... nationalist agitation, with the Sinn Fein movement and Irish calls for a boycott of British goods reinforcing his ...
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... nationalist leader. It would hardly be surprising that Jawaharlal Nehru, having imbibed a sense of the rights of Englishmen, would one day be outraged by the realization that these rights could not be his because he was not English ...
... nationalist leader. It would hardly be surprising that Jawaharlal Nehru, having imbibed a sense of the rights of Englishmen, would one day be outraged by the realization that these rights could not be his because he was not English ...
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... nationalist movement. The fracture in the Congress between the Moderates and the Extremists had been overcome with the reentry of Tilak and Besant into the party; now the chasm between the Congress and the Muslim League appeared to have ...
... nationalist movement. The fracture in the Congress between the Moderates and the Extremists had been overcome with the reentry of Tilak and Besant into the party; now the chasm between the Congress and the Muslim League appeared to have ...
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... nationalism of what Jinnah 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 ...
... nationalism of what Jinnah 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 ...
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... nationalist politics, introduced by a thin, bespectacled lawyer wearing coarse homespun, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who in 1915 had returned to India from a long sojourn in South Africa, where his “experiments with truth” and his ...
... nationalist politics, introduced by a thin, bespectacled lawyer wearing coarse homespun, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who in 1915 had returned to India from a long sojourn in South Africa, where his “experiments with truth” and his ...
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