Jawaharlal Nehru's Philosophy of History
Jawaharlal Nehru's Philosophy of History

Author: Jatin Abhir

Publisher: Jatin Abhir

Published: 2023-07-24

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 9390758912

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In the politics of twentieth century India, Jawaharlal Nehru is a familiar name. During the nine years he spent in prison, he wrote at length about Indian and world history. His ideas on history are not without distinction: he was the only major political leader of Asia or Africa to have written anything resembling a world history, for instance. The patterns and possibilities he saw in history were informed by what can be termed as his philosophy of history. He believed that how we write histories is directly related to the present we find ourselves in and the future we want to imagine. As such, a finer understanding of our past would not be possible without a more nuanced evaluation of our present and a more careful imagination of our future. The aim of this book is to understand Nehru in a new light as a philosopher of history by assembling his scattered reflections on the meaning of history and establishing a relationship between them. How did he argue for his specific historical-philosophical claims – and why?

Nehru's India
Nehru's India

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780198069423

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A pivotal figure in India's independence movement, the country's first Prime Minister, and an active politician for most of his life, Jawaharlal Nehru was also a renowned writer and scholar. Nehru's India brings together twenty-one representative speeches from Jawaharlal Nehru's 'Prime Ministerial years'. Through these speeches, selected and introduced by Mushirul Hasan, we get to see the development of Nehru's vision for free India and the actual process of transforming the blueprint into reality. They are an early articulation of government position and policies vis-a-vis infrastructural development, the roles of government and business, the differing requirements of communities and languages, and the inseparability of science and ethics. While some often reflect the opposition and struggle Nehru faced in the implementation of these policies, others help reveal the person behind the politician and administrator. Mushirul Hasan's delightful introduction cleverly knits the selections together.

The Political Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru
The Political Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru

Author: M N Das

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2024-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781032320311

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First published in 1961, The Political Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru is an attempt to coordinate Jawaharlal Nehru's ideas which, in essence, reflect his political philosophy. Nehru distinguished himself as a philosopher-politician, thinking somewhat as a philosopher while working as a politician, steering his political ideas between idealism and realism. In an eventful life, his had been the many-sided role of a revolutionary and a nationalist, a democrat and a socialist, an internationalist and a pacifist, a head of the government and, above all, a lone individual and thinker. Nehru preserved his individuality through all external influences, including those of Gandhi and Marx, and it is this which remains the keynote of his thought. It has been the aim of the author to present in an objective way the ideas of the man in the light of his own words as available from a wide range of material. This book will be of interest to students of history, political science, and philosophy.

India's Foreign Policy
India's Foreign Policy

Author: Nalini Kant Jha

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788182745544

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Papers presented at the National Seminar on "India's Foreign Policy : Emerging Challenges", held at Allahabad in January 2009.

Jawaharlal Nehru;a Biography Volume 1 1889-1947
Jawaharlal Nehru;a Biography Volume 1 1889-1947

Author: Sarvepalli Gopal

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2015-01-08

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 1473521874

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Among the few great statesmen to emerge in Asia, Jawaharal Nehru achieved a national metamorphosis in some ways even more astonishing than that of another towering patriarch, Mao Tse-tung. Not only did he wrest from the British their most prized and dearly loved Imperial possession and give his people independence, he brought his culturally rich yet economically improvised nation into the twentieth century as a force to be reasoned with. The first volume of Sarvepalli Gopal’s remarkable biographic, covering Nehru’s youth and ending with Independence in 1947, is written from first-hand knowledge of the man who served for ten years in the Ministry for External Affairs and from the unlimited access granted him by the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to her father’s private papers.