His book, while it offers some useful comment on the day-to-day hustle of a modern U.S. ambassador, is primarily the well-told story of an intelligent American’s discovery of India. There are ...

Jawaharlal Nehru: A major personality in India throughout the middle of the 20th century, Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of India, a secular humanist, a social democrat, and an author.

Nehru died in 1964. India has changed almost beyond recognition since then. His book The Discovery of India was published in 1946; it was written a few years before Nehru was interned in Ahmed ...

particularly The Discovery of India. The book is centrally focussed on Nehru’s imagination of India as an inclusive political community. The main chapters of the book engage in three intertwined ...