Author: Alan GledhillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Republic of India
Author: Alan GledhillNehru
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.
Indian Critiques of Gandhi
Author: Harold CowardPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791485889
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Although Gandhi has been the subject of hundreds of books and an Oscar-winning film, there has been no sustained study of his engagement with major figures in the Indian Independence Movement who were often his critics from 1920–1948. This book fills that gap by examining the strengths and weaknesses of Gandhi's contribution to India as evidenced in the letters, speeches, and newspaper articles focused on the dialogue/debate between Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Annie Besant, and C. F. Andrews. The book also covers key groups within India that Gandhi sought to incorporate into his Independence Movement—the Hindu Right, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs—and analyzes Gandhi's ambiguous stance regarding the Hindi-Urdu question and its impact on the Independence struggle.
Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, a Historical Partnership, 1916-1948: 1947-1948
Author: Madhu LimayeReminiscences of the Nehru Age
Author: M. O. MathaiPublisher: New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reminiscences of the author, special assistant, 1946 to 1959, to Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964, former Prime Minister of India.
Two Alone, Two Together
Author: Sonia ( Ed.)Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143032458
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Remarkable for their sensitivity and humour, and replete with vivid descriptions of major personalities and events of their times, the letters chart Indira Gandhi's developments from a shy school girl into a charismatic political leader.
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.
Nehru
Author: Stanley A. WolpertPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
India's first seventeen years of independence were dominated by the goals and dynamic leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. In this authoritative biography, a renowned expert on the history of India examines the life of the country's foremost politician.
The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa
Author: Mahatma GandhiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Some works are translations from Gujarati.
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru