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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Longlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation"
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Nehru’s India is a revisionist tour de force that shatters Nehruvian mythology. The framing device, “a history in seven myths”, is an elegant contrivance: Sherman offers seven compressed surveys that controvert the catchphrases of the era. Its brevity conceals an ambitious book."
---Pratinav Anil, Times Literary Supplement"Sherman has the natural flair of a storyteller. . . .a timely reappraisal of the early years of the state of India at a moment when Nehru’s legacy is being fought over."
---Kavita Puri, The Spectator"Refreshing. . . . This book makes a profound intervention by re-evaluating Nehru’s allegedly contentious legacies, and his role as Prime Minister."
---Shaikh Mujibur Rehman, Hindustan Times"As a scholar working on this very timeline, the book changed the ways I perceive Nehru’s India. Sherman’s premise of a history in seven myths serves as an unconventional guide for postcolonial scholars on how to circumvent the limitations of tracing a history when the leader under examination is the only available source in most cases.
Nehru’s India demonstrates how to do this through alternative characterisations of the era."
---Poorvi Gaur, LSE Review of Books"This book is both valuable and timely as it gives us the knowledge and the feel of Nehruvian India which remind us of what we desperately need in India today. . . .This book should be compulsory reading for those in government today."
---Talmiz Ahmad, The Wire
