Nehru: The Invention of India - Softcover

Tharoor, Shashi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559707372 ISBN 13: 9781559707374

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

A portrait of the Indian secularist and spiritual companion of Mahatma Gandhi discusses his childhood as a member of a politically influential family, the Enlightenment philosophies that marked his education, his decision to become an activist, his contributions to India's non-violent struggle for independence, and his witness to the violence of partition. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Shashi Tharoor was is a winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and author of six books including the novels Show Business, and The Great Indian Novel, and the non-fiction works India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Nehru: A Biography. He also works as a senior United Nations official and lives in New York.

Review:

"Shashi Tharoor's livelier, shorter essay has a...personal perspective [and] apocryphal stories. [An] excellent chapter on Nehru's legacy." - The Independent "A good summing up of Nehru's triumphs and failures...Tharoor's style is smooth and pleasant." - New York Times Book Review "[This] short and highly readable life never lacks for pithy phrases and strong opinions...Tharoor writes with shrewd wit." - Publishers Weekly"

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1559707372
• ISBN 13: 9781559707374
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304