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Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India and the founder of a political dynasty realized by his daughter Indira Ghandi and her sons, was a statesman of immense depth, courage, and charisma. His semi-autobiographical account of his country's history, The Discovery of India, is astonishingly learned, drawing from Socrates, Nietzsche, Yeats, and the Bhagavad Gita with equal ease. Wolpert, who teaches Indian history at UCLA, met Nehru in the 1950s. As he assesses the legacy of a life devoted to Indian independence and socialism, his biography tries to show both the stature and the foibles of his subject. He also details Nehru's personal life, including the early death of his wife and his long affair with Edwina Mountbatten, the wife of the last British viceroy of India.
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Jawaharlal Nehru was India's royal figure, its matinee idol, its most gifted prime minister. He combined a unique array of talents: compelling oratory, a brilliant mind, good looks, a keen political sense, but he also suffered from brooding isolation. He left an indelible mark on both the country he led to independence, and the world in which he lived. Yet even though Nehru wrote more about himself than did any other modern Indian, "Panditji's" true face has always remained veiled. Following Nehru from childhood, through his Harrow and Cambridge education, to his years as nationalist leader and Prime Minister of India, Stanley Wolpert's compelling, authoritative biography strips Nehru of his many cloaks and covers, removing the public masks he fashioned for himself throughout his mature life. With a subtle analysis of the various influences on Nehru's intellectual and political life--including the early homosexual influences, his conflict with his father, his close relationship with Mahatma Gandhi, his English education, and the years of periodic and sometimes prolonged imprisonment--Wolpert lays open to the reader the most nuanced, insightful rendering of Nehru's life yet written. Wolpert describes Nehru's brief career as a barrister, and his devotion to India's struggle for freedom, following in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi to the dust and poverty of India's villages. The book traces Jawaharlal's swift rise to the presidency of India's National Congress, revealing how his radical ideas and fearless leadership of Congress's left wing soon won him the martyrdom of long years behind British bars for conducting civil disobedience campaigns. After his release in 1945, Nehru met Lord Mountbatten, with whom he was destined to negotiate the independence and partition of British India into the nation states of India and Pakistan in 1947. Nehru then went on to become India's immensely popular Prime Minister for almost two decades. Wolpert brings Nehru's complex personality to life against a vividly portrayed picture of India's fascinating history throughout its most turbulent century. He shows how India's own destiny was intimately wrapped up in the destiny of Nehru, a charismatic leader who stands among the twentieth century's foremost statesmen.
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Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny.......2001-02-14
I admit that I knew precious little about India prior to reading this book, and even less about Nehru. Author Stanley Wolpert, UCLA professor of Indian history, presents well-researched information. Wolpert was given access to private files and letters that make his text gleam with insightful tidbits of Nehru's life. There is no doubt that Nehru's influence on India was profound during his life and since his death in 1964.
I began to think of Nehru as a "rascal" and this label for him continued to cross my mind as I read further. Although Nehru studied law at Cambridge, he had little interest in it. What did interest him was wandering around Europe, sitting in hot tubs at Harrogate's hydro, and acting, dressed as a seductive woman, in Victorian tableaux. Whenever he needed money to pursue his dalliances, he would ask his father for more. If Motilal would refuse, he would ask his mother to intercede.
Meanwhile, world events began to change India's attitude toward British colonialism. During World War I, over one million Indian troops fought for the British Empire, with over 100,000 killed. Not ones to show their gratitude, the British passed the Black Acts in 1915 that suspended Indian civil liberty and judicial due process. Nehru traveled through India with Gandhi to speak about Indian independence. Of the masses who greeted Gandhi, Nehru said that they were "dull...and uninteresting individually," but "produced a feeling of overwhelming pity and a sense of ever-impending tragedy."
By the late 1920's, Nehru was heavily entangled in Indian politics. Although he signed the Delhi manifesto, a compromise that gave India dominion status rather than full independence, he felt guilty about going against his inner voice. His fervent speeches about Indian independence led to years of incarceration. While in court in 1934 charged with sedition, Nehru stated his desire to "achieve the independence of India and to put an end to foreign domination." His approach to Indian independence became even more radical, moving further away from Gandhi's peaceful resistance. In public, however, Nehru did not admit his swing away from Gandhi's passivity. He recognized Gandhi's popularity as a guru. Gandhi, in turn, recognized Nehru's political support.
If ever a movie is made about Nehru, I am certain that the bulk of the story will be on his liaisons with Edwina, Claire Boothe Luce and others. Fortunately, author Stanley Wolpert does not dwell on this portion of Nehru's life in his book, but rather concentrates on Nehru's obvious impact upon India's government. Of course, a movie about Nehru's many years of incarceration would be quite boring. I found many parts of this book difficult to follow because Wolpert jumps around in time faster than a Quentin Tarantino movie. The absolute worst omission from the book is that there is no map of India or of south Asia. I am not the sort who carries a world map in my head, so when a book like this is chock-a-block full of references to geographical features and political strife, why is there is no map to which to refer? Other than this serious lack, the book is a thoughtful and well-researched focus on a great world leader.
An out standing Book, Sheading light on some truth........2000-08-28
I believe Prof. Stanley A. Wolpert has done intensive research on his book and has the concept of "free speech" in mind. Nehru an over-rated person has been defined truely in this book. This book is for the people who are free in their minds and for the people who can appriciate truth. I would recomend this book to all Indians who love their country in a true manner.
A poor biography of a great leader.......2000-06-24
This biography fails to show the life of Mr. J.L. Nehru in a true perspective and is very judgemental. The author's views are shaped totally on the impressions that he had while writing a book on the contemporary of Mr Nehru, Mr M.A. Jinnah. This book just seems to be an extension of the earlier one on Mr Jinnah, which certainly is a brilliant book written on a person that we know so less about. It seems while reading the book that the author is time and again trying to justify what he had written in the earlier biography and thus ends up showing Nehru in a worse light more often than not. A biography cannot be written on the basis of views of the opponents of the biographee. What the author fails to realize is that two people could have their own thinking that conflicts with one another and yet be great people. A bad book for an author of well written books like biographies of M.A. Jinnah and Z.A. Bhutto, and A New History of India. For those who are interested in reading a biography on Nehru I would recommend the one by M.J. Akbar which is brilliantly written.
another orientalist disaster.......1999-10-01
another failed piece about South Asia by a known orientalist scholar. If you like being in a fantasy world then this book is for you.
Another Masterful Effort by Professor Wolpert.......1999-01-29
With his biography of Nehru, Stanley Wolpert has completed a trilogy of works on three of the key architects of Modern South Asian history (with Zulfikar Bhutto and Jinnah). Wolpert's insight, aided by his impressive access to research materials and interviews with supporting cast, provides a comprehensive view of India's first leader, and gives a keen, objective account of his life. It is refreshing to see an accurate, unbiased reporting, instead of the overly romanticized and effusive distortion espoused by Attenborough in his movie, Gandhi. Upon reading Wolpert's biographies of Nehru, Bhutto and Jinnah, one will be left with the conclusion that Jinnah was a man to be respected and admired; Bhutto was a man whom one could admire but not respect; and Nehru was a man whom one could neither respect nor admire. The book shows Nehru to be a duplicitous charlatan who hid behind the guise of his pompous upbringing and education, and was more concerned with the sexual conquest of the wives of powerful men than with the concerns of his countrymen. These three biographies should be required reading for anyone interested in South Asian history and politics, particularly in light of the recent developments of India's and Pakistan's nuclear programs. One may better understand the genesis of the underlying hostility between these two nations through an examination of those who helped shape things.
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