Nehru and Bose

‘Nobody has done more harm to me . . . Than Jawaharlal Nehru’ wrote Subhas Chandra bose in 1939.Had relations between the two great nationalist leaders soured to the extent that bose had begun to view nehru as his enemy? but then why did he name one of the regiments of the Indian national army after Jawaharlal? and what prompted nehru to weep when he heard of bose’s untimely death in 1945 and to recount soon after ‘i used to treat him as my younger brother’?Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s fascinating book traces the contours of a friendship that did not quite blossom as political ideologies diverged and delineates the shadow that fell between them-for Gandhi saw Nehru as his chosen heir and Bose as a prodigal son. About the Author Rudrangshu mukherjee is vice chancellor and professor of history at ashoka university. earlier he taught at calcutta university he has held visiting appointments at princeton university manchester university and the university of california santa cruz. he was the editor of the editorial pages of the telegraph calcutta and continues in that role as a consultant. he is the author and editor of several books which include awadh in revolt 1857-58 a study of popular resistance and spectre of violence the 1857 kanpur massacres as well as the penguin gandhi reader.