Jawaharlal Nehru

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With a new and comprehensive introduction by Mushirul Hasan   Among the few great statesmen to emerge from Asia, Jawaharlal Nehru played a decisive role in the history of the twentieth-century by putting India on the world map as a force to be reckoned with. Authored by one of the leading historians of India, these three volumes provide an authoritative first-hand account of Jawaharlal Nehru and his times.    Chronologically arranged, the first of the three volumes discusses Nehru’s early life and ends in 1947. The second focuses on the first nine years of his prime ministership, and the third examines the last eight years of his life. Shifting effortlessly between the public and private spheres of Nehru the individual, the politician, and the family man, these volumes are as much a social and political history of their times as they are a biography.   Volume One: 1889–1947 This first volume traces his formative years, youth, entry into politics, role in the independence struggle, and his emergence as a leader of the Congress. It also highlights the role of Kamala Nehru in his life and events surrounding the transfer of power.    Volume Two: 1947–1956 Nehru’s tenure was fraught with domestic and foreign issues like the struggle between India and Pakistan for Kashmir, first elections of free India based on adult suffrage, demand for the creation of new linguistic provinces, and the Suez Crisis. The second volume shows how Nehru’s principled leadership ensured that he was considered among the foremost statesmen of the world.   Volume Three: 1956–1964 The third volume focuses on Nehru’s efforts to sustain the economic and social advance of the Indian people without loosening the hold of the principles of his foreign policy. It bears testimony to the enduring impact of his policies and achievements in the national as well as the international sphere.   Drawing information from rare private papers, this intimate and sensitive portrait of Nehru will be indispensable for scholars, researchers, and students of modern Indian history, and politics, as well as the general reader. 

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