To know and understand India one has to travel far in time and space, to forget for a while her present condition with all its misery and narrowness and horror, and to have glimpses of what she was and what she did. The following passage reflects the objective of the book. I will let my earlier one-line review stand. It is time to see if the book achieves the objectives it sets out to achieve and judge it thus.
But, on my third reading of this book, it is time to finally go beyond the beauty of the prose and the elegance of Nehru’s presentation. It is but folly for me to attempt to review a book so close to my heart. His daughter, Indira Gandhi, became prime minister two years after his death. Domestically, he promoted democracy, socialism, secularism, and unity, adapting modern values to Indian conditions. During his tenure, India clashed with Pakistan over the Kashmir region and with China over the Brahmaputra River valley. He attempted a foreign policy of nonalignment during the Cold War, drawing harsh criticism if he appeared to favour either camp. Shortly before Gandhi's assassination in 1948, Nehru became the first prime minister of independent India. When India was granted limited self-government in 1935, the Congress Party under Nehru refused to form coalition governments with the Muslim League in some provinces the hardening of relations between Hindus and Muslims that followed ultimately led to the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan. He was imprisoned nine times between 19 for his political activity. His close association with the Indian National Congress began in 1919 in 1929 he became its president, presiding over the historic Lahore session that proclaimed complete independence (rather than dominion status) as India's political goal. Gandhi's approach to Indian independence. More interested in politics than law, he was impressed by Mohandas K. First prime minister of independent India (1947 – 64), Nehru was educated at home and in Britain and became a lawyer in 1912.
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