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Nehru's India : a history in seven myths / Taylor C. Sherman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sherman, Taylor C., author.
- Series:
- Princeton scholarship online.
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964.
- Nehru, Jawaharlal.
- Statesmen--India--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- India--History--1947-.
- India.
- India--Politics and government--1947-.
- India--Social conditions--1947-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.) : 7 b/w illus.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 'Nehru's India' brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two decades, Taylor Sherman reevaluates the role of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, in shaping the nation. She argues that the notion of Nehru as the architect of independent India, as well as the ideas, policies, and institutions most strongly associated with his premiership - nonalignment, secularism, socialism, democracy, the strong state, and high modernism - have lost their explanatory power. They have become myths. Sherman examines seminal projects from the time and also introduces readers to little-known personalities and fresh case studies.
- Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- chapter 1 The myth of Nehru the architect of independent India
- chapter 2 The myth of India's non-aligned foreign policy
- chapter 3 The myth of hegemonic secularism
- chapter 4 The myth of socialism
- chapter 5 The myth of the strong state
- chapter 6 The myth of the successful democracy
- chapter 7 The myth of high modernism in India
- Coda
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 8, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sherman, Taylor C. Nehru's India
- ISBN:
- 9780691227221
- 0691227225
- OCLC:
- 1330934371
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