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Jawaharlal Nehru: Civilizing a Savage World
An intimate view of the influences, encounters and defining historical moments that forged the vision of India’s first prime minister
Written by Nayantara Sahgal, prize-winning novelist and political commentator, Jawaharlal Nehru presents an intimate view of the influences, encounters and defining historical moments that forged the vision of India’s first prime minister. Dr...more
Written by Nayantara Sahgal, prize-winning novelist and political commentator, Jawaharlal Nehru presents an intimate view of the influences, encounters and defining historical moments that forged the vision of India’s first prime minister. Dr...more
Hardcover
Published
2010
by Penguin Books India
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Good book that gives you a idea as India's early foreign policy and why Nehru made the choices that he did. The author's love for Nehru (her uncle) is evident throughout the book.
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Nayantara Sahgal is an Indian writer in English. Her fiction deals with India's elite responding to the crises engendered by political change. She was one of the first female Indian writers in English to receive wide recognition. She is a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family, the second of the three daughters born to Jawaharlal Nehru's sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
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