Nehru: A Contemporary's Estimate

Nehru: A Contemporary's Estimate

Elegant, perceptive, and startlingly prophetic, Nehru: A Contemporaryâ€™s Estimate is one of the finest accounts of Nehru ever written. Walter Crocker, the Australian high commissioner to India, admired Nehru the manâ€”his grace, style, intelligence and energyâ€”and was deeply critical of many of his political decisionsâ€”the invasion of Goa, Indiaâ€™s Kashmir policy, the Five Year Plans. This book, written shortly after Nehruâ€™s death, is full of invaluable first hand observations about the man and his politics. Many of Crockerâ€™s points, tooâ€”especially the implications of the Five Year Plans and of the introduction of democracy to Indiaâ€”are particularly relevant today. Out of print for many years, this classic biography has been reissued with an authoritative foreword by Ramachandra Guha.
Country USA
Manufacturer Vintage Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-11-20
Format Kindle eBook