Jawaharlal Nehru (Oxford India Short Introductions)

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

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Publication Date: April 28th, 2019

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN:

9780199492954

Pages:

176

Description

This is a short introduction to the life and ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India's first prime minister. The approach is biographical. The book traces how Nehru transformed himself from a rich Westernized young man to a radical leader of the Congress. It looks at his relationship with Mahatma Gandhi. This relationship was fraught but he remained loyal to Gandhi and was his chosen successor. This introduction also looks at some of the significant features of his tenure as prime minister and makes an assessment of his contribution to the making of modern India and to democracy in India.

About the Author

RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, PROFESSOR, CHANCELLOR Rudrangshu Mukherjee is the Chancellor and Professor of History, Ashoka University. He was also the founding Vice Chancellor and Professor of History at Ashoka University. Between 1993 and 2014, he was the editor, editorial pages of The Telegraph, Kolkata. He has taught in the history department of the University of Calcutta. Mukherjee has held visiting appointments at Princeton University, Manchester University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was educated at Calcutta Boys' School, Presidency College, Kolkata; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was awarded a DPhil in modern history by the University of Oxford. Among his important publications are Awadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance, Spectre of Violence: The Kanpur Massacres in the Revolt of 1857, Year of Blood: Essays on 1857, The Penguin Gandhi Reader, Great Speeches of Modern India, Nehru & Bose: Parallel Lives and Twilight Falls on Liberalism.