Midnight’s children come to power
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, 30 March 1989
Nehru: The Making of India
by M.J. Akbar.
Viking, 609 pp., £17.95, January 1989,9780670816996 Show More
by M.J. Akbar.
Viking, 609 pp., £17.95, January 1989,
Daughter of the East
by Benazir Bhutto.
Hamish Hamilton, 333 pp., £12.95, November 1988,0 241 12398 4 Show More
by Benazir Bhutto.
Hamish Hamilton, 333 pp., £12.95, November 1988,
“... levels of government is vital to ‘the making of India’, the explicatory subtitle of M.J. Akbar’s biography of Nehru, a relentlessly superficial and trivialising book, which has not been improved by the now voluminous historical literature on 20th-century India. Readers interested in Nehru will find his politics and personality better illuminated in ... ”
