Nehru: The Invention of India

Shashi Tharoor

Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 27‏/11‏/2018 - 284 من الصفحات

This short biography examines a great figure of twentieth-century nationalism from the vantage point of the beginning of the twenty-first. Deftly weaving personal facets with historical events, it tells the fascinating story of Jawaharlal Nehru-aristocrat, socialist, anti-imperialist, foremost disciple of Gandhi, diehard secularist and India's first prime minister, who sought to educate the Indian masses in democracy by his own personal example. Shashi Tharoor also analyses the principal pillars of Nehru's legacy to India, all of which were integral to a vision of Indianness that is fundamentally contested today.

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معاينة المستخدمين  - danoomistmatiste - LibraryThing

Another well written piece from this author. Provides some detailed insights into the life of this great man. A truly international figure who left an indelible mark on both the Gloabal and National ...

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معاينة المستخدمين  - dmcolon - LibraryThing

Tharoor's biography of Nehru starts out a bit slow, but ends as an engaging meditation on the life of one of India's founding fathers. Tharoor does a thorough job chronicling Nehru's early years as a ...

نبذة عن المؤلف

Shashi Tharoor is the bestselling author of sixteen previous books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a noted critic and columnist. His books include the path-breaking satire the Great Indian Novel (1989), the classic India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997) and most recently, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, for which he won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2016 for Books (Non-Fiction). He was a former under secretary-general of the United Nations and a former minister of state for human resource development and minister of state for external affairs in the Government of India. He is a two-time member of the Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram and chairs Parliament's external affairs committee. He has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was honoured as New Age Politician of the Year (2010) by NDTV. He was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India's highest honour for overseas Indians.

معلومات المراجع

• العنوان: Nehru: The Invention of India
• المؤلف: Shashi Tharoor
• الناشر: Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 2018
• رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب): 9353053552, 9789353053550
• عدد الصفحات: 284 من الصفحات