Gandhi and Nehru: frustrated visionaries?(Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru)(includes bibliography)

From: History Today | Date: September 1, 1997| Author: Brown, Judith | Copyright information

India has not achieved the moral, political and social renewal that was the vision of Gandhi and Nehru as the country became independent. Their hopes for a tolerant and compassionate country can still provide goals to India's political leaders.

The observer of India in 1997 is rightly struck by the immense stability of this, the world's largest democracy, in contrast with her South Asian neighbours and many other new nation states which emerged out of the former British Empire. ...

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