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Nehru

The Debates That Defined India

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Nehru

Written by: Adeel Hussain, Tripurdaman Singh
Narrated by: Shubhankar
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From being elected as Congress president in 1929 till his death in 1964, Jawaharlal Nehru remained a towering figure in Indian politics, a man who left an indelible stamp on the history of South Asia. As a leading light of the nationalist struggle and as India's first and longest-serving prime minister, his ideas shaped the political contours of the country and left an imprint so deep that his legacy continues to be debated furiously today.

In life, as in afterlife, Nehru was many things to many people. Going beyond the imposed labels of contemporary discourse, this book illuminates four encounters that Nehru had with contemporaries from across the political spectrum—Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Sardar Patel and Syama Prasad Mookerjee—that are critical to understanding his ideas, and his long afterlife and impress on the present.

Nehru may no longer be alive to answer his critics today, but there was a time when he pitted himself vigorously against his opponents in the marketplace of ideas, debating the most profound questions in South Asian history and decisively influencing political events. It is this intellectually combative Nehru whom we meet in this book—voicing ideological disagreements, forging political alliances, molding political opinion, offering visions of the future and staking out the political field—a key figure in the debates that defined India.

©2021 Adeel Hussain, Tripurdaman Singh (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers
India Political Science South Asia

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Debates that had profound impact on India

Absolutely loved the book. The good thing about the authors is that they do not force feed their point of view on the audience and just present the facts in terms of the correspondences and debates that happened. The first two debates between Nehru & Iqbal and Nehru & Jinnah are kind of okay and do not break new ground as much of it is already known to most of us. However the debates between Nehru & Patel and between Nehru & Mukherjee are absolutely gems. These were not known to even well read people. It showed how prescient both Patel and Mukherjee were and later events proved that whatever fears they had expressed, proved to be true.

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