Nehru

by Judith M. Brown

Overview

Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no tradition of democratic politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138163744
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/20/2017
Series:	Profiles In Power
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	List of Figures	vii
	List of Maps	viii
	Acknowledgements	ix
	List of Abbreviations	xi
	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	A Vocation to Politics	7
	The world of Indian politics in the late nineteenth century	7
	The young Jawaharlal, 1889-1923	22
Chapter 2	Apprentice to Power: Gandhi's Heir, 1923-c. 1945	39
	The inner world	40
	The world of governance and politics	47
Chapter 3	The Transfer of Power: 'Tryst with Destiny'	64
	The constitutional transfer of power	65
	Unfinished business: forging the nation	71
	Making the state	77
Chapter 4	The Visionary as Prime Minister	93
	The establishment of dominance	96
	The uses of power	104
Chapter 5	The Limits of Power	136
	State and society	139
	The problem of resources	149
	Relations with the wider world	157
	Vision and reality	163
	Epilogue	175
	Conclusion	180
	Bibliographical Essay	189
	Chronology	193
	Glossary	196
	Maps	199
	Index	205

Editorial Reviews

Reprint of a 1999 study in which Brown (Commonwealth history, U. of Oxford) explores Nehru as a figure of power and how he achieved his dominant role in the fractured world of Indian politics. She discusses his motivation<-->what was it in his background, temperament, and experiences that made this reserved and scholarly man seek the power he eventually wielded; how he, as a politician of opposition, retrained for governance; his skills and resources as a political animal, and what the constraints upon him were; how he organized and led this new and unwieldly nation with no tradition of democratic government to build on; and what his long-term ambitions for India were, and how close he came to achieving them. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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'Elegantly written...a delight to read'English Historical Review

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