Author: Robert Desmond King
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Nehru's linguistic sophistication, his extraordinary sensitivity to language and his mastery of English prose, are traced back to his childhood in Allahabad through an examination of his personal letters, and the translations he did at school, as also his later reading and writing. In dealing with Nehru's crucial role in the area of Indian language politics the book rounds out our picture of India's first prime minister.
Author: Pritipuspa Mishra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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Explores the ways linguistic nationalism has enabled and deepened the reach of All-India nationalism. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author: Judith M. Brown
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317874765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no tradition of democratic politics.
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628721987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist who—alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi—led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would one day help topple British rule and become India’s first prime minister started out as a surprisingly unremarkable student. Born into a wealthy, politically influential Indian family in the waning years of the Raj, Jawaharlal Nehru was raised on Western secularism and the humanist ideas of the Enlightenment. Once he met Gandhi in 1916, Nehru threw himself into the nonviolent struggle for India’s independence, a struggle that wasn’t won until 1947. India had found a perfect political complement to her more spiritual advocate, but neither Nehru nor Gandhi could prevent the horrific price for independence: partition. This fascinating biography casts an unflinching eye on Nehru’s heroic efforts for, and stewardship of, independent India and gives us a careful appraisal of his legacy to the world.
Author: Asha Sarangi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198064220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
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This volume - in the Themes in Politics series - focuses on the relationship between language (culture) and politics (power) at the social, political, historical, cultural, and ideological levels. It explains the conceptual and historical unfolding of this relationship between 1900 and 2000.It also expands newer areas and frontiers of research and critical thinking by drawing attention to readings from different disciplines and perspectives. The essays have been thematically arranged to illustrate the rich diversity of issues and arguments. The plurality and methodologicalinnovativeness is reflected in the selection of readings and their novel ways of interpreting the language question. The major highlights of this volume are India's linguistic diversity and its political predicament; linguistic states formation in independent India; Indian Constitution and thelanguage question; linguistic minorities; and language and education.
Author: Michael Brecher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195647563
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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This biography of Nehru is also a political history of India over the forty years of Nehru's involvement in the freedom movement and the politics of the formative years of Indian nationhood. It traces Nehru's political and psychological development, exploring the complexities of his character. Brecher assesses Nehru as a leader and also his place in history. This well-researched book will appeal to all interested in biographies and modern Indian history.
Author: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199091722
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi–Urdu debates, Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India examines the formation of Maithili movement in the context of expansion of Hindi as the ‘national’ language. It revisits the dynamic hierarchy through which a distinction is produced between ‘major’ and ‘minor’ languages. The movement for recognition of Maithili as an independent language has grown assertive even when the authority of Hindi is resolutely reinforced. The book also examines increasing politicization of the Maithili movement — from Hindi–Maithili ambiguities and antagonisms, to territorial consciousness, and subsequently to separate statehood demand, along with the persistent popular indifference. Mithilesh Jha examines such processes historically, tracing the formation of Maithili movement from mid-nineteenth century until its inclusion into the eighth schedule of the Indian constitution in 2003.
Author: Sinderpal Singh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135907889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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South Asia is one of the most volatile regions of the world, and India’s complex democratic political system impinges on its relations with its South Asian neighbours. Focusing on this relationship, this book explores the extent to which domestic politics affect a country’s foreign policy. The book argues that particular continuities and disjunctures in Indian foreign policy are linked to the way in which Indian elites articulated Indian identity in response to the needs of domestic politics. The manner in which these state elites conceive India’s region and regional role depends on their need to stay in tune with domestic identity politics. Such exigencies have important implications for Indian foreign policy in South Asia. Analysing India’s foreign policy through the lens of competing domestic visions at three different historical eras in India’s independent history, the book provides a framework for studying India’s developing nationhood on the basis of these idea(s) of ‘India’. This approach allows for a deeper and a more nuanced interpretation of the motives for India’s foreign policy choices than the traditional realist or neo-liberal framework, and provides a useful contribution to South Asian Studies, Politics and International Studies.
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Mohammad Shabbir Khan
Publisher: New Delhi : Ashish Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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