Jawaharlal Nehru, once a beloved hero who ruled hundreds of millions of hearts, has today become an arch-villain. The former prime minister is ritually pilloried by those who wish to cast the country ...

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Did Nehru create a personality cult? This and similar other questions about the life and times of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru formed the focus of a discussion as students and ...

My grandfather never met Mohandas Gandhi, but he did the next best thing. A photograph taken in the 1950s, which hung in a room in his mansion, showed him bashfully stepping forward to place a garland ...

Enough time has passed since the end of colonial rule in India so we should expect reasonably objective accounts of one of the most complex human situations in history. Brown, a professor at Oxford, ...