Nehru: The Making of India

Jawaharlal Nehru's extraordinary life was divided into three phases. For nearly thirty years, he was a wealthy Anglophile from a privileged Kashmiri Brahmin family, before Mahatma Gandhi drew him into the dream of freedom, and made him a pillar of the struggle for independence from British rule. Nehru resolved the contradictions between an aristocratic inheritance and nationalist commitment with intellectual sangfroid and personal conviction. Between 1947 and 1962 he was the anointed archit...