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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN-13
9781611454116
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114002841
Product Key Features
Author
Shashi Tharoor
Publication Name
Nehru: the Invention of India
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Politics, History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
814mm
Item Width
6mm
Item Weight
420g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Shashi Tharoor
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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