Author: B N Pandey
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 499
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171676022
Description
A product of painstaking research, based almost entirely on private documents, this book is an insightful probe into the private and public life of the man.
India's first Prime Minister has been a topic of enduring interest to biographers. His rise to power and his attempts to give life to his vision of a new world order have been as much a focus of scholarship as the man away from the political arena.
Dr Pandey's book is an insightful probe into the private and public life of the man. It is a product of painstaking research, based almost entirely on private documents, and explores among other things Nehru's intellectual growth, his policies as the leader of the nation, and his bond with the Mahatma.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
CHAPTER I
Sowing of the Seed
CHAPTER II
The Growth of an Intellectual, 1905-12
CHAPTER III
Waiting for a Leader, 1913-19
CHAPTER IV
The Plunge into the Politics of Suffering 1920-1
CHAPTER V
Beginnings of Compromise, 1922-5
CHAPTER VI
Emergence of a Leader, 1926-9
CHAPTER VII
The Introspective Warrior, 1930-6
CHAPTER VIII
Farewell to Revolution, 1936-42
CHAPTER IX
The Defeat of a Nationalist, 1942-7
CHAPTER X
The Years of Statesmanship, 1947-51
CHAPTER XI
The Leader of the Third World, 1952-8
CHAPTER XII
Defeat into Victory, 1959-63
CHAPTER XIII
The Last Struggle, January-May 1964
Notes
Bibliography
Index