Jawaharlal Nehru (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Emil Lengyel
- First Published: 1968
- Time of Work: 1889–1964
- Setting: Allahabad, Delhi, and New Delhi, India; and London and Cambridge, England
- Principal Characters: Jawaharlal Nehru, Motilal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Kamala Nehru, Swarup Nehru, Krishna Menon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Politics, Prisoners, Leadership, Nationalism, Politicians, Lawyers, India or East Indian people, Biography
- Locales: London, England, Cambridge, England, India
Form and Content
In Jawaharlal Nehru: The Brahman from Kashmir, Emil Lengyel portrays Nehru as a Western-educated aristocrat who placed his intelligence, education, and personal magnetism at the service of Indians of all castes and religious persuasions, in the interest of the common goal of a free India. A prologue dramatizes Nehru’s phenomenal popularity with the masses as head of the emerging nation. Ten subsequent chapters trace the course of Nehru’s development from the pampered son of a wealthy attorney to the socialist leader of a newborn Third World...
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