Letters for a Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers 1947-1963 - Softcover

Jawaharlal Nehru; Madhav Khosla (Ed.)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143425773 ISBN 13: 9780143425779

Publisher: Penguin, 2015

Synopsis

In October 1947, two months after he became independent India s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the first of his fortnightly letters to the heads of the country s provincial governments a tradition he kept until a few months before his death. This carefully selected collection covers a range of themes and subjects, including citizenship, war and peace, law and order, governance and corruption, and India s place in the world. Visionary, wise and reflective, these letters are of great contemporary relevance for the guidance they provide for our current problems and predicaments.

About this title

About the Author:

Madhav Khosla, a graduate of Yale Law School and the National Law School, Bangalore, is currently a PhD scholar at Harvard University, where he studies modern Indian political thought. He is the author of The Indian Constitution (2012) and the co-author of Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia (with Mark Tushnet, 2015). He is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution.

Review:

In his immensely accessible volume, Khosla reacquaints us with Nehru the architect Mint A timely reminder of how much we owe to [Nehru s] foresight, sagacity, self-restraint and generosity of spirit --Outlook

This sensitively edited collection shows the scale and power of Nehru s thinking --The Hindu

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0143425773
• ISBN 13: 9780143425779
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352