ILLUSTRATIONS
The Indian sub-continent at the transfer of power, 1947 xxvi
Political cartoon by Shankar Pillai, November 10, 1963 xxvii
PLATES
(between pages 132 and 133)
1 ‘Joe’ Nehru at Harrow, 1906
2 Strained relations: Nehru and Gandhi before the
launching of the Quit India Movement, 1942
3 An icon in the making: Lord and Lady Mountbatten
looking at the portrait of Nehru after its unveiling at India
House, London, on Nehru’s birthday, November 14, 1947
4 Nehru, in protective glasses, as potential buyer of farm
tractors for India, Chicago, October 30, 1949
5 Jawaharlal Nehru and Zhou Enlai in Beijing, October 26,
1954
6 Nehru with Khrushchev and Bulganin in Delhi, December
1955
7 The Dalai Lama and Jawaharlal Nehru, September 1959
8 A visibly strained Nehru at a press conference, November
1962