Letters for a Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers 1947-1963 & Aurangzeb (PB): The Man and the Myth (Set of 2 Books)

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.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. The letters also cover momentous world events and the many crises the country faced during the first sixteen years after Independence. Visionary wise and reflective these letters are of great contemporary relevance for the guidance they provide for our current problems and predicaments. 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 --OutlookThis sensitively edited collection shows the scale and power of Nehru s thinking --The Hindu 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.NA