TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
TI  - NEHRU AND THE SPIRIT OF INDIA 
SN  - 9780670094233
U1  - 954.042092 
PY  - 2022////01/01
CY  - Haryana
PB  - Penguin Random House
KW  - Jawaharlal Nehru-Former Prime Minister-India
KW  - Politics and History
KW  - Nehru 1947-1964
KW  - Political History & Nehru's Political ideas
KW  - Nehru's Political Ideas and Thoughts
KW  - Nehru- Debates
KW  - India's political and Cultural History
KW  - Nehru- Political Philosophy- Memoir
N1  - From the 'politics of friendship' between Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah, Nehru's defense of secularism in the Constituent Assembly Debates, to what propelled Nehru to curb free speech in the First Amendment, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee draws from political history to illuminate fierce debates in India today: Kashmir, the CAA, and hate speech. Be it contemporary events like the miracle of Ganesha drinking milk and the use of Vedic astrology in Chandrayaan-2, or the agonising suicide of a doctor, the author examines the fractured nature of Indian modernity, which Nehru had suggestively called a 'garb'. Bhattacharjee bolsters Nehru's view that India is enriched by the encounter of cultures and that we must not discard the past, but engage with it.

As a second-generation refugee, Bhattacharjee argues for a 'minoritarian' approach to national politics. Breaking ideological and disciplinary protocols, he compels us to learn from the insights of poets and thinkers. Lucidly written, this provocative book offers an original perspective on Nehru and Indian history
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