NEHRU: The Invention of India
Shashi Tharoor, . . Arcade, $24.95 (282pp) ISBN 978-1-55970-697-1
The Indian consensus that Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) constructed as the nation's first prime minister, Tharoor writes with unsparing objectivity, "has frayed: democracy endures, secularism is besieged, nonalignment is all but forgotten, and socialism barely clings on." Nehru seems "curiously dated, a relic of another era." His goal of creating "a just state by just means" has been undermined by the centrifugal forces of Indian religious and cultural divisiveness. Tharoor's short and highly readable life never lacks for pithy phrases and strong opinions. A senior U.N. official, Tharoor (
Reviewed on: 10/20/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
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