Nehru : The Invention of India

✍ Scribed by Shashi Tharoor

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An incisive new 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 under his father's careful guidance. 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 compliment to her more spiritual advocate, but neither Nehru nor Gandhi could prevent the horrific price for independence: Partition. In this fascinating biography, Tharoor, author of India: From Midnight to the Millennium,...

✦ Table of Contents

Title page
Contents
Preface
A Note on Indian Political Movements
1 "With Little to Commend Me": 1889-1912
2 "Greatness Is Being Thrust upon Me": 1912-1921
3 "To Suffer for the Dear Country": 1921-1928
4 "Hope to Survive the British Empire": 1928-1931
5 "In Office but Not in Power": 1931-1937
6 "In the Name of God, Go!": 1937-1945
7 "A Tryst with Destiny": 1945-1947
8 "Commanding Heights": 1947-1957
9 "Free Myself from this Daily Burden": 1957-1964
10 "India Must Struggle against Herself": 1889-1964
"2003 Who"s Who: Short Biographical Notes
A Note on Sources
Select Bibliography
Index