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Few men in their lifetime have aroused stronger emotions or touched deeper chords than Gandhi. B R Nanda's biography, widely-acclaimed upon its publication in 1958, has been established over time as a full, authoritative account. Compelling, carefully researched and objective, it is the biography of a remarkable figure, the events of whose life have lost none of their relevance. Capturing all the nuances of the momentous events it covers, it is a record and analysis of a critical period in South-Asian history that all interested in the area will value. This is the complete and unabridged version of the biography in Oxford India Paperbacks for the first time.
Gandhi Once Described The Indian Freedom Struggle As A Contest Among Three Mighty Forces: British Imperialism, Congress Nationalism And Muslim Separatism. It Is On This Contest That The Book Concentrates. Drawing Upon His Work In The Last Four Decades, Br Nanda Has Produced, In This Volume An Outline History Of The Struggle Of The Indian Freedom Struggle.
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The Volume Make A Comparative Study Of The Background, Temperaments And Ideologies Of Those Leaders Who Differed Significantly In Manner And Style But Had A Common Vision Of Unity And Freedom Of India. The Past As Stated By The Author Is Seen Through The Lives Of Gandhi And Gokhale, While Nehru Informs The Present.
Full of fascinating and rare halftones of Nehru, this biography strikes a much-needed balance between the adulation accorded Nehru during his lifetime and the denigration - often quite ill-founded - heaped upon since.
About the life of Jawahar Lal Nehru.
This book, first published in 1962, established itself as a standard biography of Motilal and Jawaharlal Nehru. It provides a gripping survey of seventy momentous years of Indian History between 1861 and 1931. In a new preface, the author talks about how and why he wrote this book.