Nehru: The Making of India

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Viking, 1988 - Biography & Autobiography - 609 pages
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, was the ideological and political heir of Gandhi. Building on the Mahatma's foundations, as leader both of the Congress and of independent India from 1947, Nehru shaped the new state: his story is India's story. Born in Allahabad on 14 November 1889, Nehru was a Kashmiri Brahmin, a member of India's most aristocratic caste (ROLI)

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The Pandits
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Culture and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century
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The Lawyers
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