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Nehru (Hardcover)
Benjamin Zachariah
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R3,233
Discovery Miles 32 330
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This engaging new biography dispels many myths surrounding Nehru,
and distinguishes between the icon he has become and the politician
he actually was. Benjamin Zachariah places Nehru in the context of
the issues of his time, including the central theme of nationalism,
the impact of Cold War pressures on India and the transition from
colonial control to a precarious independence. How did Jawaharlal
Nehru come to lead the Indian nationalist movement, and how did he
sustain his leadership as the first Prime Minister of independent
India? Nehru's vision of India, its roots in Indian politics and
society, as well as its viability have been central to historical
and present-day views of India. Connecting the domestic and
international aspects of his political life and ideology, this
study provides a fascinating insight into Nehru, his times and his
legacy.
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Nehru (Paperback)
Benjamin Zachariah
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R1,097
Discovery Miles 10 970
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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How did Jawaharlal Nehru come to lead the Indian nationalist
movement, and how did he sustain his leadership as the first Prime
Minister of independent India? Nehru's vision of India, its roots
in Indian politics and society, as well as its viability have been
central to historical and present-day views of India. This engaging
new biography dispels many myths surrounding Nehru, and
distinguishes between the icon he has become and the politician he
actually was. Benjamin Zachariah places Nehru in the context of the
issues of his time, including the central theme of nationalism, the
impact of Cold War pressures on India and the transition from
colonial control to a precarious independence. Connecting the
domestic and international aspects of his political life and
ideology, this study provides a fascinating insight into Nehru, his
times and his legacy.
Have Marxian ideas been relevant or influential in the writing and
interpretation of history? What are the Marxist legacies that are
now re-emerging in present-day histories? This volume is an attempt
at relearning what the "discipline" of history once knew - whether
one considered oneself a Marxist, a non-Marxist or an anti-Marxist.
Have Marxian ideas been relevant or influential in the writing and
interpretation of history? What are the Marxist legacies that are
now re-emerging in present-day histories? This volume is an attempt
at relearning what the "discipline" of history once knew - whether
one considered oneself a Marxist, a non-Marxist or an anti-Marxist.
This volume examines the tension between the "nation" idea as a
necessary language of legitimacy with which to claim liberation,
and its role in disciplining people and their identities in India,
in the name of national liberation. It is an attempt to open up new
lines of thinking, and ways of reading Indian history.
This book is about the production and consumption of history,
themes that have gained in importance since the discipline's
attempts to disavow its own authority with the ascendancy of
postmodern and postcolonial perspectives. Several parallel themes
crosscut the book's central focus on the discipline of history: its
intellectual history, its historiography, and its connection to
memory, particularly in relation to the need to establish the
collective identity of 'nation', 'community' or state through a
memorialisation process that has much to do with history, or at
least with claiming a historicity for collective memory. None of
this can be undertaken without an understanding of the roles that
history-writing and history-reading have been made to perform in
public debates, or perhaps more accurately in public disputes. The
book addresses a discomfort with postcolonial theories in and as
history. Following are essays that examine the state of the
discipline, the art of reading and using archives, practices of
tracking the history of ideas, and the themes of history, memory
and identity.
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