Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a short introduction to the life and ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India's first prime minister, aimed at the general readers and the students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 184mm x 128mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 127g
• ISBN-13: 9780199492954
• ISBN-10: 0199492956
• Artikelnr.: 55296559

Autorenporträt

Rudrangshu Mukherjee is the Chancellor and Professor of History, Ashoka University. He was also the founding Vice Chancellor and Professor of History at Ashoka University. Between 1993 and 2014, he was the editor, editorial pages of The Telegraph, Kolkata. He has taught in the history department of the University of Calcutta. Mukherjee has held visiting appointments at Princeton University, Manchester University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was educated at Calcutta Boys' School, Presidency College, Kolkata; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was awarded a DPhil in modern history by the University of Oxford. Among his important publications are Awadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance, Spectre of Violence: The Kanpur Massacres in the Revolt of 1857, Year of Blood: Essays on 1857, The Penguin Gandhi Reader, Great Speeches of Modern India, Nehru & Bose: Parallel Lives and Twilight Falls on Liberalism.

Inhaltsangabe

ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
1. DISCOVERY OF INDIANS
2. LEADER OF THE CONGRESS
3. MAHATMA'S DISCIPLE
4. AS PRIME MINISTER
5. ENVOI
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READINGS