A Study of Nehru
Author : Rafiq Zakaria
Publisher :
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Nehru
Author : Benjamin Zachariah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1134577400
Book Description
Connecting the domestic and international aspects of Nehru's political and ideological life, this engaging new biography places Nehru in the context of the issues of his time and dispels many myths surrounding the figure.
Jawaharlal Nehru;a Biography Volume 1 1889-1947
Author : Sarvepalli Gopal
Publisher : Random House
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1473521874
Book Description
Among the few great statesmen to emerge in Asia, Jawaharal Nehru achieved a national metamorphosis in some ways even more astonishing than that of another towering patriarch, Mao Tse-tung. Not only did he wrest from the British their most prized and dearly loved Imperial possession and give his people independence, he brought his culturally rich yet economically improvised nation into the twentieth century as a force to be reasoned with. The first volume of Sarvepalli Gopal’s remarkable biographic, covering Nehru’s youth and ending with Independence in 1947, is written from first-hand knowledge of the man who served for ten years in the Ministry for External Affairs and from the unlimited access granted him by the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to her father’s private papers.
Nehru
Author : Walter Crocker
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2011-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8184002130
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.
The Gentle Colossus
Author : Hirendranath Mukerjee
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
Nehru and Bose
Author : Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9351188493
Book Description
‘Nobody has done more harm to me . . . than Jawaharlal Nehru,’ wrote Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939. Had relations between the two great nationalist leaders soured to the extent that Bose had begun to view Nehru as his enemy? But then, why did he name one of the regiments of the Indian National Army after Jawaharlal? And what prompted Nehru to weep when he heard of Bose’s untimely death in 1945, and to recount soon after, ‘I used to treat him as my younger brother’? Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s fascinating book traces the contours of a friendship that did not quite blossom as political ideologies diverged, and delineates the shadow that fell between them—for, Gandhi saw Nehru as his chosen heir and Bose as a prodigal son.
The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru
Author : Andrew Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2011-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139501933
Book Description
Why do leaders sometimes challenge, rather than accept, the international structures that surround their states? In The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru, Andrew Kennedy answers this question through in-depth studies of Chinese foreign policy under Mao Zedong and Indian foreign policy under Jawaharlal Nehru. Drawing on international relations theory and psychological research, Kennedy offers a new theoretical explanation for bold leadership in foreign policy, one that stresses the beliefs that leaders develop about the 'national efficacy' of their states. He shows how this approach illuminates several of Mao and Nehru's most important military and diplomatic decisions, drawing on archival evidence and primary source materials from China, India, the United States and the United Kingdom. A rare blend of theoretical innovation and historical scholarship, The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru is a fascinating portrait of how foreign policy decisions are made.
War and Peace in Modern India
Author : S. Raghavan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0230277519
Book Description
A study of Indian foreign policy under Jawaharlal Nehru, concentrating on the fundamental questions of war and peace. Looks at Nehru's handling of the disputes over the fate of Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir in 1947-48; the refugee crisis in East and West Bengal in 1950; the Kashmir crisis in 1951; and the boundary dispute with China 1949-62.
Breaking Free of Nehru
Author : Sanjeev Sabhlok
Publisher : Breaking Free of Nehru
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Government accountability
ISBN : 8190583581
Book Description
The book discusses the impact of Nehruvian socialism on freedom in India. It reflects on India s post-independence experience and finds that India needs to move well beyond socialist paradigms towards freedom and innovation if it wishes to retrieve its status as a great nation. It then traces the causes of India`s political and bureaucratic corruption, its poverty, and its large, illiterate population. The book then proposes numerous ways to transform India`s governance thorough competitive, freedom-based, solutions. Solutions recommended range from a re-write of the Indian Constitution in order to make it simpler and clearly focused on freedom, to the radical restructure of the Indian public services based on modern public sector reforms across the world. It advocates state funding of elections, raising the salaries of politicians significantly, freeing the labour market, imposing carbon taxes on pollution, seeking compensatory payments from developed countries for their prior carbon emissions, and complete privatisation of school and university education. It argues that India can, and should, aspire to be the world s best in everything it does. I believe that no Indian should settle for anything less than that.
Nehru
Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 34,54 MB
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1628721987
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.
