Nanda,B.R.

Three statesmen Gokhale, Gandhi, and Nehru - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2015 - lvi, 1104p

In an exploration of three charismatic leaders, B.R. Nanda one of India's foremost historians of the freedom movement makes a comparative study of their backgrounds, temperaments and the ideologies. He analyses in detail how they differed significantly in manner and style but shared a common vision of the unity and freedom of India. Followed by the introduction, in three separate works, Nanda examines the lives of these three leaders in relation to their eras. These, therefore, are both biographies and histories of critical times relating personalities to periods and leaders to the societies they lived in. The volume focuses on the inter-relationship between their ideas and methods and how these remain relevant today. The past, says Nanda, as seen through the lives of Gokhale, Gandhi and Nehru, informs the present and has many lessons for India and the world today.

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Nationalist--India--Biography
Gandhi, Mahatma 1869-1948--India
Statesmen--India--Biography
Social perception--India

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