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This book is nothing, if not path- breaking, striving as it does, an analysis of nehru - The Man and the leader, unattempted yet in indian political lexicon. Based on unimpeachable sources, the book brings out vividly the virtues and faults of the man who sat at the sttering wheel of this nation`s destiny ; after freedom by midnight`. The prevarication, indecisiveness and lack of focus in nehru`s planning and prescriptions have all been brought out with a surgical precision. His skewwed view of socialism and secularism, his loaded policy of non- alignment, arrogance and impulsiveness to a fault, his portean manner of tackling serious issues of the integrity of the state, such as state language, uniform civil code and linguistic provinces, a more than equal treatment to minorities, and impatienence with the hindu identity, symbolic to his policy of appeasement of Muslims, his inapt handling of the kashmir cris and the authorship of chinese debacle have been analysed with only one aim in view, the truth. The book does not merely record the events of Nehru`s cretinous legacy that has shaped the present Indian polity, and the profound effect his thoughts have had on our intelligentsia. the apocalypse of Nehru`s deeds is a series of failures and disasters. Finally, it also points out to our present day youth why they, where they find themselves today. ISBN : 81-7049-089-8, Bibliography, index, 16+421, 1997.
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