Nehrus India : A History in Seven Myths

Nehru’s India Brings A Provocative But Nuanced Set Of New Interpretations To The History Of Early Independent India. Drawing From Her Extensive Research Over The Past Two Decades, Taylor Sherman Reevaluates The Role Of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s First Prime Minister, In Shaping The Nation. She Argues That The Notion Of Nehru As The Architect Of Independent India, As Well As The Ideas, Policies, And Institutions Most Strongly Associated With His Premiership?nonalignment, Secularism, Socialism, Democracy, The Strong State, And High Modernism?have Lost Their Explanatory Power. They Have Become Myths.