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Jawaharlal Nehru

Footnote in Political Life

Swapan Dasgupta

It is not very often that relations between India and another country gets the attention of Parliament

Hard Power at Play

India has launched a proactive defence doctrine with Operation Sindoor

The Lost Nehru Papers

Examines the legal and political storm over the private papers of India’s first prime minister and why they remain at the heart of a battle for legacy and control

The Word of Politics

The Myth of the Socialist Secular Republic

Non-Aligned India

Three seminal chapters in diplomatic history

A historic blunder that gave Pakistan the upper hand on Indus waters

In his well researched book, scholar and author Uttam Sinha brings out in fascinating detail how senior Cabinet minister N V Gadgil differed with Jawaharlal Nehru over the giving Pakistan too much leeway in sharing river waters after the 1947-48 war. Extracts follow:

The Secular Pretence

Why didn’t Nehru codify Muslim personal law?

The Enemy Within

VK Krishna Menon’s victory in the 1962 North Bombay election resulted in India’s military defeat later that year. It is a warning for Parliament and government today

Failing History

A defence of an excessively demonised Nehru cannot itself be a one-sided affair

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