The Reinvention of Nehru; A new biography hails the Indian leader's virtues.("Nehru: The Invention of India")(Book Review)

From: Newsweek International | Date: February 23, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Nisid Hajari

Unlike his daughter, Indira Gandhi, who was not beyond using the coincidence of her name to identify herself as the embodiment of her nation, Jawaharlal Nehru never claimed to be India. Though he devoted himself to the liberation of his compatriots, he knew that his wealthy, Westernized upbringing distanced him from most of them; as Shashi Tharoor points out in his new biography of the Indian leader, Nehru even penned a pseudonymous warning against those who would put him on a pedestal. So the title of Tharoor's "Nehru: The Invention of India" (282 pages. ...

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