Nehru: The Invention of India
6 best books like Nehru: The Invention of India (Shashi Tharoor): The Discovery of India, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity, Makers of Modern India, India's Struggle for Independence, The Accidental Prime Minister (The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh), India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
| Author | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| ISBN | 0143031031 |
In conjunction with the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi, Oxford proudly announces the reissue of Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, two famous works by Jawaharlal Nehru. One of modern day's most articulate statesmen, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a on a wide variety of subjects....
In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is "a bracing sweep through aspects of Indian...
| Author | Ramachandra Guha |
| ISBN | 0674052463 |
Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers...
| Author | Bipan Chandra |
| ISBN | 0140107819 |
This is the first major study to examine every one of the varied strands of the epic struggle individually and collectively and present it in a new and coherent narrative and analytical framework. Basing themselves on oral and other primary sources and years of research, the authors take the reader...
The Accidental Prime Minister (The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh)
In 2004 Sanjaya Baru left a successful career as chief editor of the Financial Express to join Manmohan Singh as his media adviser. Singh and Baru had been close and Baru, a great admirer of the technocrat who had ushered in the 1991 reforms, saw this as an opportunity to help a man he admired lead India down...
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
| Author | Ramachandra Guha |
| ISBN | 0060198818 |
A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have...
