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Title: Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru ISBN: 0-19-562359-2 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Easy to read excellent narration of India's history
Comment: Most lucid in its presentation and covering almost all aspects of Indian culture, values and history this book explores the depths of India's personality while providing an outstanding description of India's freedom movement. AN ABSOLUTE MUST. This book was written during Nehru's imprisonment by the British during the freedom struggle. Other books by the same author which are equally captivating are "Glimpses of World History", and "Letters to my Daughter".
Rating: 4
Summary: A personal, gentle introduction to the history of India
Comment: India has changed a lot since this book was written in the mid 1940s. But for an informative, entertaining narrative of Indian history from 5000 BC - 1947 AD, read this book. Mostly completed during his long stays in the prison (while working with Gandhi to free India from British rule), this book is a brilliant masterpiece. Period.
The narration tneds to be sometimes personal and sometimes subjective. The writing is excellent when you think about the author who was a lawyer and a politician. I would recommend this book to anybody trying to "figure" out India or Indians or the Indian pysche.
Rating: 3
Summary: romantic view of some unpleasant reality
Comment: Whether as a Prime Minister or an author, Nehru was a romantic and remained so until Chinese invasion of India in 1962. In this books he is at his romantic best.
Indeed, as a fellow reviewer on this page has said, this book reamins an excellent introduction to three thousand years of Indian history but the treatment of the subject remains glossy.
Author Nehru struggles reconciling the destruction wrought by Muslim invaders with the so-called secular identity Prime Minister Nehru tried to bestow on India.
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Title: Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahadev Desai, Sissela Bok ISBN: 0807059099 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Malgudi Days (Twentieth-Century Classics) by R. K. Narayan ISBN: 0140185437 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Nehru: A Biography by Shashi Tharoor ISBN: 155970697X Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 14 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh, Khushwant ISBN: 0802132219 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: India: A History by John Keay ISBN: 0802137970 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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