Nehru The Invention of India

Name: Nehru The Invention of India
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ISBN: 9781611454116

ISBN-10: 1611454115

ISBN-13: 9781611454116

Edition: 2012

Authors: Shashi Tharoor

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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…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.22" wide x 32.05" long x 5.60" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Shashi Tharoor was born in London and brought up in Bombay and Calcutta. He has written for the New York Times , the Washington Post , the International Herald Tribune , the Times of India , and Foreign Affairs . A human rights activist and winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize, he is currently a member of the Indian Parliament and lives in New Dehli, India.