Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii

CHRONOLOGY ix

PREFACE xxi

Introduction 1

1 The making of a colonial intellectual 11

2 The young Gandhian 29

3 ‘Ineffectual angel’, 1927–39 58

4 The end of the Raj 103

Interlude – Envisioning the new India 139

5 Consolidating the state, c. 1947–55 169

6 High Nehruvianism and its decline, c. 1955–63 214

Conclusion: death, succession, legacy 253

NOTES 267

FURTHERREADING 279

INDEX 287