Author: Mahatma GandhiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Gandhi on Nehru
Author: Mahatma GandhiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Glimpses of World History
Author: Jawaharlal NehruPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Nehru
Author: Walter CrockerPublisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184002130
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Elegant, perceptive, and startlingly prophetic, Nehru: A Contemporary’s Estimate is one of the finest accounts of Nehru ever written. Walter Crocker, the Australian high commissioner to India, admired Nehru the man—his grace, style, intelligence and energy—and was deeply critical of many of his political decisions—the invasion of Goa, India’s Kashmir policy, the Five Year Plans. This book, written shortly after Nehru’s death, is full of invaluable first hand observations about the man and his politics. Many of Crocker’s points, too—especially the implications of the Five Year Plans and of the introduction of democracy to India—are particularly relevant today. Out of print for many years, this classic biography has been reissued with an authoritative foreword by Ramachandra Guha.
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
Author: Katherine FrankPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007372507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century (voted Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll, 2000)
Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
Author: Ved MehtaPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 024150502X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Ved Mehta's brilliant Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles provides an unparalleled portrait of the man who lead India out of its colonial past and into its modern form. Travelling all over India and the rest of the world, Mehta gives a nuanced and complex, yet vividly alive, portrait of Gandhi and of those men and women who were inspired by his actions.
Nehru
Author: Shashi TharoorPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628721987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
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.
The Republic of India
Author: Alan GledhillEconomic Thought of Gandhi and Nehru
Author: O. P. MisraPublisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN: 9788185880716
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The book arrives at the conclusion that neither Gandhian economic thought nor Nehruvian economic thought is germane to our purpose. Their harmonious blending is the only sovereign remedy to India's poverty, unemployment, economic disparity, population explosion and rural-urban imbalance.
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Author: Ramachandra GuhaPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509883282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 871
Book Description
Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections; the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi; a major anti-corruption movement; more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others; comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. This tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. Published to coincide with seventy years of the country’s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers.
Author: Tariq Ali