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This short biography examines a great figure of twentieth-century nationalism from the vantage point of the beginning of the twenty-first. Deftly weaving personal facets with historical events, it tells the fascinating story of Jawaharlal Nehru-aristocrat, socialist, anti-imperialist, foremost disciple of Gandhi, diehard secularist and India's first prime minister, who sought to educate the Indian masses in democracy by his own personal example. Shashi Tharoor also analyses the principal pillars of Nehru's legacy to India, all of which were integral to a vision of Indianness that is fundamentally contested today.

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Penguin Viking
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28 November 2018
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20 x 14 x 4 cm
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0670092002
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SHASHI THAROOR is the bestselling author of twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a noted critic and columnist. His books include the pathbreaking satire The Great Indian Novel (1989), the classic India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997), the bestselling An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, for which he won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2016, for Books (Non-Fiction), and The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and His India. He has been Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. He is a three-time member of the Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram and chairs the Parliament Information
Technology committee. He has won numerous literary awards, including a national Sahitya Akademi award, a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. He was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India's highest honour for overseas Indians, in 2004, and honoured as New Age Politician of the Year (2010) by NDTV.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Viking (28 November 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0670092002
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0670092000
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 260 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20 x 14 x 4 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

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Good biography

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 6 December 2022

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Not the best biography of Nehru, but the best concise biography. A balanced assessment. Tharoor doesn't hate Nehru, nor is he in awe of him. One missing subject is Nehru's disastrous first amendment to the constitution.

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Dynamic

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 6 November 2022

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His thoughts and writting are quite beautiful amazing visualisation, study of the each subject very meticulous attention before he writes

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This is a spectacular book on Pandit Nehru. Short, to the point and brilliantly written.
SHASHI has produced the Great leader in his terms and highlighted his thinking.
It’s a must read.

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Democrat,Secular,Socialist and Visionary.

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Its just mesmerising.From Jawaharlal to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s journey is as dramatic, passionate and anticlimactic as a bollywood movie.A person who in that days had 24 hrs electricity and running water and to my astonishment a private swimming pool and tennis court in his house.That was the kind luxury Jawaharlal had.This man goes on to serve almost 10 years in jail in the most pettiest conditions ever.From length and breadth of India it describes Pt Nehru’s popularity in India and the kind of respect the world leaders had for him.The visionary that India had produced has left his imprint on the world.The book also covers the negatives of Nehru from socialism to idealism and his romanticism of the Chinese civilisation leading him to coin the term Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai.
Its absolutely worth reading.

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Short and Crisp

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It was my first book of mr shashi tharoor and the reason i bought it was that our generation has been immensely influenced with partial knowledge of what's app University and i was no different.
Just to change this attitude i decided to buy the book penned by our very own tharoor ji.
His love towards nehru is well recognised and i was expecting it to be a one sided book where i will only know Nehru's positives.
but i must admit that i was wrong ,how balanced was his approach, if one really wants to understand Nehru strength and flaw you shouldn't hesitate to grab this book.
yes there would be some chapter were political angle gets to deep and people with non political inclination may want to skip pages but it gets neutralized by some very interesting anecdotes of his life.

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Absolute gem of a book

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Absolute gem of a book, it is detailed , well accounted, neutral and crisply written.

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Sriram Nathan

Nehru's amalgamatous concoction by Tharoor!!

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Nehru the creation of India by Shashi Tharoor....

Let me answer the biggest question first!!...

No, I did not have to reach to my dictionary now and then to read this one!...I guess this one was before the vocabulary attack!.... Literally!!.....

Another perspective from a member of the same party trying to score some browny points while cleverly indicating a lot by saying very little!!.... That's what is the book which though non fiction is fiction to a point of view of the man who himself is under a cloud of suspect nowadays!....

While freedom at midnight gave so much importance to Lord Mountbatten and while Azad's autobiography gave it to himself and am sure while the hordes of books on the Mahatma give the onus to Gandhi, this one is Nehru everywhere!...

The clever manipulations by the father of the nation to give post to his protégé might have in effect given us a weak, temperamental, communistic and naive first leader of the country...... Imagine the strong Bose or the iron Patel as the more stronger alternates...... At this point it's only a matter of have been and nothing else......

And how innocently Tharoor glides over the women in the pundit's life giving ample space for imagination is why the book had to be written by Shashi....

Had picked up this one too see one more opinion if that would change mine..... About dynasty that is.... But safe to say that this one is nowhere close....

Read to know another view point though don't expect it to change your point of view!!...... So exasperating!!!.....

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A good book on the life of Nehru, that is easy to read.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 3 August 2017

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This is a short biography on Jawaharlal Nehru. Shashi Tharoor's style of narration was sharp and easy to read for the most part, except towards the end of the book, where it became kind of fussy. The book begins with the events just preceding Nehru's birth and goes on to describe his life during childhood and further. The book is not a hagiography. The author discusses both the positive as well as the negative aspects of Nehru. He talks about how Nehru's integrity, his strong belief in secularist ideals, equality, his utmost cautiousness when it came to possibility of dictatorship, and his respect for democratic institutions helped build a stable democracy as ours has been. He also talks about the failures on his part, especially his closed economic policy which avoided foreign investments, which was actually the result of the fear of repetition of what had happened through the East India Company, his much impugned foreign policy which was the product of a blind trust on the neighbouring countries and his desire for an Asiatic consortium, and of course his irascibility and rigidity of manner. It is a good book to learn more about the man who is probably the most responsible of all for the stable democratic instrument which our country is.

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A very comprehensive and readable account of Jawaharlal Nehru.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 March 2016

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This book gives a very good idea of what Nehru the man was like as well as the politician, and the role he played along with other key figures of the time in the partition of India. There are plenty of quotes and the author doesn't avoid contentious areas. Very readable which is aided by a favourable font size. While some biographies word-wash the subject, this book provides a constant flow of information without the bluster or the dusty recesses of the English language being used. A very interesting and informative read!

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Every Indian and those interrested in India should read this

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 October 2016

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Great read. Gives a lot of details of the mans thinking and the consequences which put India back for decades.

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Hervorragende Biografie

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gibt ausgezeichneten Einblick in die Hintergründe des Unabhängigkeitskampfes Indiens und in die Spaltung des Landes.
Dr Einkauf verlief glatt und einwandfrei

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Good introductory read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 9 March 2020

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This book is a good introduction into Nehru’s life as a freedom fighter and to events and influences in his life that shaped his beliefs. It is a good book that helped me understand what Nehru believed India is as a nation, and the legacy he left.

Overall a great read, it was hard for me to put down.

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B. R. Ramaprasad

Shashi Tharoor's Nehru-A good read

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This is a very good book for those who do not know much about Nehru. Mr. Tharoor's style is simple and brings out the essential facts in a simple understandable manner. People who know more about Nehru may take issue with him as they might feel he is too kind towards him. But, this book I think is factual and certainly not a scholarly work as Mr. Tharoor himself mentions. I liked it.

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