{"product_id":"nehrus-india-9780691222585","title":"Nehrus India","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Longlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation\"\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNehru’s India\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Pratinav Anil, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Kavita Puri, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Refreshing. . . . This book makes a profound intervention by re-evaluating Nehru’s allegedly contentious legacies, and his role as Prime Minister.\"\u003cb\u003e---Shaikh Mujibur Rehman, \u003ci\u003eHindustan Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\u003ci\u003e Nehru’s India \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates how to do this through alternative characterisations of the era.\"\u003cb\u003e---Poorvi Gaur, \u003ci\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Talmiz Ahmad, \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403911143767,"sku":"9780691222585","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691222585.jpg?v=1730484865","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nehrus-india-9780691222585","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}