Summary of Shashi Tharoor's Nehru

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 In January 1889, Motilal Nehru, a lawyer from the north Indian city of Allahabad, traveled to Rishikesh, a town sacred to Hindus, up in the foothills of the Himalayas on the banks of the sacred river Ganga. There, he met a famous yogi who gave him a son, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become one of the most remarkable men of the twentieth century.
#2 The young Jawaharlal Nehru was shaped by two sets of parental influences: the traditional Hinduism of his mother and the modernist, secular cosmopolitanism of his father. The women in his family told him stories from Hindu mythology, and he was regularly immersed in the holy river Ganga.
#3 The Nehrus were Kashmiri Pandits, who had made new lives for themselves in northern and central India since the eighteenth century. They were proud of their pan-Indian outlook.
#4 Jawaharlal’s father, Motilal, was a lawyer who acquired the trappings of a Victorian gentleman of means. He had electricity and running water in his house, and his son was given lavish birthday parties and holidays in Kashmir.

Sujets

• Religion
• Autobiography
• Biography
• Lettres et linguistique
• Presidents
• Heads of State

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 11 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822505964
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Shashi Tharoor's Nehru
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In January 1889, Motilal Nehru, a lawyer from the north Indian city of Allahabad, traveled to Rishikesh, a town sacred to Hindus, up in the foothills of the Himalayas on the banks of the sacred river Ganga. There, he met a famous yogi who gave him a son, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become one of the most remarkable men of the twentieth century.

#2

The young Jawaharlal Nehru was shaped by two sets of parental influences: the traditional Hinduism of his mother and the modernist, secular cosmopolitanism of his father. The women in his family told him stories from Hindu mythology, and he was regularly immersed in the holy river Ganga.

#3

The Nehrus were Kashmiri Pandits, who had made new lives for themselves in northern and central India since the eighteenth century. They were proud of their pan-Indian outlook.

#4

Jawaharlal’s father, Motilal, was a lawyer who acquired the trappings of a Victorian gentleman of means. He had electricity and running water in his house, and his son was given lavish birthday parties and holidays in Kashmir.

#5

Jawaharlal Nehru’s father, Motilal, was a freethinker who saw the real hope of progress in Western science and English reasoning rather than in Hindu religion or ritual. He often took this conviction too far, and at one point in the 1890s he decreed that no language other than English would be spoken at his home.

#6

Jawaharlal Nehru, the future prime minister of India, was also a student at Harrow School. He was well-adjusted enough to adjust to a new country, a new climate, and the rigors of a new school, and he did well there.

#7

Jawaharlal’s radical streak began when he arrived in England. He read the works of George Bernard Shaw, and found in them arguments against both capitalism and imperialism that seemed to predict the inevitable decline of the British Raj in India.

#8

Jawaharlal Nehru, far from being a prominent Indian student figure, was an active sportsman at Cambridge. He did not enjoy the law profession his father practiced, and he barely passed the bar examinations.

#9

Jawaharlal Nehru, after completing an unremarkable first phase of his life, was about to return home for good at twenty-two. His father, Motilal, had faith in his son’s destiny. He had funded him handsomely for every educational attainment, and he rewarded him for every small achievement.

#10

Jawaharlal Nehru had a second-class degree, but in this sense he had had a first-class English education. The foundations had been laid for the future nationalist leader.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

When Jawaharlal Nehru returned home, he was greeted by a relative. He then took a train to Dehra Dun, where he alighted into the warm embrace of a visibly moved Motilal. He was put to work in his father’s chambers.

#2

Jawaharlal Nehru’s first few years back in India were uneventful until his marriage in 1916, which was arranged by his father. He left his wife behind when he went trekking and hunting with friends in Kashmir that summer, and had his second narrow escape from an untimely death.

#3

Jawaharlal Nehru was initially not interested in politics, but he became involved with the Indian National Congress, which was led by the Moderates.