The Last Englishman to Rule India
Ashis Nandy: Jawaharlal Nehru, 21 May 1998
Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny
by Stanley Wolpert.
Oxford, 546 pp., £25, January 1997,0 19 510073 5 Show More
by Stanley Wolpert.
Oxford, 546 pp., £25, January 1997,
“... decades it has become controversial and divisive and this has set the tone for Indian reactions to Wolpert’s book. Nehru brought to the freedom movement a touch of 19th-century European radicalism – notably Fabianism – and the social-democratic theories of the interwar years. Though sometimes accused of being a closet Marxist, he was nothing of the ... ”