Brown Release Date: 30 Jan 2001 Format: Paperback Pages: 1 ISBN: 9780582437500 ISBN-10: 0582437504
NehruJawaharlal Nehru was the founding figure of modern India - the key statesman in the country's long struggle for independence. As its first Prime Minister from 1947 until his death in 1964, he steered India through its early, formative years as one of the world's great nations.
Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and how he achieved his dominant role in the fractured world of Indian politics, looking at:Nehru's motivation: what it was in his background, his temperament andexperiences that made this reserved and scholarly man seek the power he eventually wieldedhow he achieved his dominant role in the fractured world of Indianpoliticshow he, as a politician of opposition, 'retrained' for governancewhat his skills and resources as a political animal were, and what theconstraints upon him werehow he organised, and lead, this new and unwieldy nation with notradition of democratic government to build onwhat his long-term ambitions for India were, and how close he came toachieving them This is undoubtedly the best introduction to the sensitive articulate visionary, who became Prime Minister and died disappointed, for all his immense achievements, frustrated by his failure
