Tag: Nehru
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Episode 15: India, Pakistan, Burma and Beyond: A History of Partitions- In Conversation with Sam Dalrymple
As recently as 1928, a vast region spanning twelve of today’s Asian countries—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait—were bound together as a single entity known as the Indian Empire, or simply the Raj. In less than 50 years after 1928, this Indian empire was shattered by five…
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Wit and Humour of Rajaji
One of the greatest tragedies for the disciplines of history and political science in India is the fact that we have less biographies about the people we study about. What we have are (a) hagiographies that are uncritical and hero-worshipping in their content and bizarre in their prose, (b) good and quality biographies focusing only…
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A Note on Jawaharlal Nehru’s Mission for India
Jawaharlal Nehru is indisputably the greatest ‘architect of modern India’ and a founding father of ‘multiple agendas’ for India. His role in sustaining India from breaking down or falling to the pray of sectarian divisions and in securing India from all kinds of external threats and interventions are phenomenal. Till his death in 1964, “Nehru…
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