An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in India 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. Sherman examines seminal projects from the time and also introduces readers to little-known personalities and fresh case studies, including India’s continued engagement with overseas Indians, the importance of Buddhism in secular India, the transformations in industry and social life brought about by bicycles, a riotous and ultimately doomed attempt to prohibit the consumption of alcohol in Bombay, the early history of election campaign finance, and the first state-sponsored art exhibitions. The author also shines a light on underappreciated individuals, such as Apa Pant, the charismatic diplomat who influenced foreign policy from Kenya to Tibet, and Urmila Eulie Chowdhury, the rebellious architect who helped oversee the building of Chandigarh. Tracing and critiquing developments in this formative period in Indian history, Nehru’s India offers a fresh and definitive exploration of the nation’s early postcolonial era.

Revised to encompass developments through to the end of the 20th century, this is a study of India's complex history and society. The author views the development of Indian civilization in terms of the socio-religious conflicts and traditions through time, and their impact on political culture.

Political and social views of Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964, Indian statesman; includes account of Indian politics and government, chiefly of 1919-1947.

What constitutes a sovereign state in the international legal sphere? This question has been central to international law for centuries. Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia provides a compelling exploration of the history of sovereignty through an analysis of the jurisdictional politics involving a specific set of historical legal entities. Governed by local rulers, the princely states of colonial South Asia were subject to British paramountcy whilst remaining legally distinct from directly ruled British India. Their legal status and the extent of their rights remained the subject of feverish debates through the entirety of British colonial rule. This book traces the ways in which the language of sovereignty shaped the discourse surrounding the legal status of the princely states to illustrate how the doctrine of sovereignty came to structure political imagination in colonial South Asia and the framework of the modern Indian state. Opening with a survey of the place of the princely states in the colonial structures of South Asia, Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia goes on to illustrate how international lawyers, British politicians, colonial officials, rulers and bureaucrats of princely states, and anti-colonial nationalists in British India used definitions of sovereignty to construct political orders in line with their interests and aspirations. By invoking the vernacular of sovereignty in contrasting ways to support their differing visions of imperial and world order, these actors also attempted to reconfigure the boundaries among the spheres of the national, the imperial, and the international. Throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, debates and disputes over the princely states continually defined and redefined the concept of sovereignty and international legitimacy in South Asia. Using rich material from the colonial archives,Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia conveys an understanding of the history of sovereignty and the construction of the modern Indian nation-state that is still relevant today. A riveting read, this book will be of considerable interest and importance to scholars of international law and South Asia, legal historians, and political scientists.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the origin and development of economic thought from the ancient times to the present day. It documents the contributions of major thinkers from the time of Hebrews to Maurice Dobb, and the perspectives that influenced the economic thought. The book also provides an account of the recent trends in Indian economic thought and will be of interest and relevance to all students and scholars of the subject. It covers the syllabus of economic thought of major Indian universities.

INDEX CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 : THE COLONIAL LEGACY CHAPTER 3 : THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT AND ITS LEGACY CHAPTER 4 : THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND MAIN PROVISIONS CHAPTER 5 : THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CONSTITUTION : BASIC FEATURES AND INSTITUTIONS CHAPTER 6 : THE INITIAL YEARS CHAPTER 7 : CONSOLIDATION OF INDIA AS A NATION(I) CHAPTER 8 : CONSOLIDATION OF INDIA AS A NATION (II) : THE LINGUISTIC REORGANISATION OF THE STATES CHAPTER 9 : CONSOLIDATION OF INDIA AS A NATION (III): INTEGRATION OF THE TRIBALS CHAPTER 10 : CONSOLIDATION OF INDIA AS A NATION(IV) : REGIONALISM AND REGIONAL INEQUALITY CHAPTER 11 : THE YEARS OF HOPE AND ACHIEVEMENT, 1951–1964 CHAPTER 12 : FOREIGN POLICY : THE NEHRU ERA CHAPTER 13 : JAWAHARLAL NEHRU IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE CHAPTER 14 : POLITICAL PARTIES, 1947–1964: THE CONGRESS CHAPTER 15 : POLITICAL PARTIES,1947–1965: THE OPPOSITION CHAPTER 16 : FROM SHASTRI TO INDIRA GANDHI,1964–1969 CHAPTER 17 : THE INDIRA YEARS, 1969–1973 CHAPTER 18 : THE JP MOVEMENT AND THE EMERGENCY : INDIAN DEMOCRACY TESTED CHAPTER 19 : THE JANATA INTERREGNUM AND INDIRA GANDHI’S SECOND COMING, 1977–1984 CHAPTER 20 : THE RAJIV YEARS CHAPTER 21 : RUN-UP TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM AND AFTER CHAPTER 22: POLITICS IN THE STATES (I): TAMIL NADU, ANDHRA PRADESH AND ASSAM CHAPTER 23 : POLITICS IN THE STATES (II): WEST BENGAL AND JAMMU AND KASHMIR CHAPTER 24 : THE PUNJAB CRISIS CHAPTER 25 : INDIAN ECONOMY, 1947–1965: THE NEHRUVIAN LEGACY CHAPTER 26 : INDIAN ECONOMY, 1965–1991 CHAPTER 27 : ECONOMIC REFORMS SINCE 1991 CHAPTER 28 : THE INDIAN ECONOMY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM CHAPTER 29 : LAND REFORMS (I): COLONIAL IMPACT AND THE LEGACY OF THE NATIONAL AND PEASANT MOVEMENTS CHAPTER 30 : LAND REFORMS(II): ZAMINDARI ABOLITION AND TENANCY REFORMS CHAPTER 31 : LAND REFORMS (III): CEILING AND THE BHOODAN MOVEMENT CHAPTER 32 : COOPERATIVES AND AN OVERVIEW OF LAND REFORMS CHAPTER 33 :AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AND THE GREEN REVOLUTION CHAPTER 34 : AGRARIAN STRUGGLES SINCE INDEPENDENCE CHAPTER 35 : REVIVAL AND GROWTH OF COMMUNALISM CHAPTER 36: COMMUNALISM AND THE USE OF THE STATE POWER CHAPTER 37 : CASTE, UNTOUCHABILITY, ANTI-CASTE POLITICS AND STRATEGIES CHAPTER 38: INDIAN WOMEN SINCE INDEPENDENCE CHAPTER 39 : POST-COLONIAL INDIAN STATE AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT: AN OVERVIEW CHAPTER 40 : DISARRAY IN INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNANCE CHAPTER 41 : DAWN OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM: ACHIEVEMENTS, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, leading America from a wheelchair; Genghis Khan, conquering Central Asia until he died in a riding accident; Nelson Mandela, teaching freedom through prison walls: this multicultural reference tool examines 200 leaders, rulers, and activists from around the world. The volume includes lesser-known, yet important, individuals such as Chin Shih Huang, the emperor who reunified China, and Hatshepsut, queen of ancient Egyptian dynasty. Detailed biographical essays place them in a broad historical context, illuminating their enduring impact on the common understanding, and fundamental themes, of human existence.