Michael Edwardes forgets that Jawaharlal Nehru was the founder of modern Indian democracy. It was a biography of her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, authored by the British historian Michael Edwardes. I picked up Edwardes’ book last Sunday—27 May, Nehru’s death anniversary—and found that while it deserved its terrible reviews, it was by no means a candidate for a ban. Gandhi, the author claims, permitted Nehru to give many speeches while keeping him on a “leash” when it came to genuine political decisions. To Edwardes, Nehru was an accident of history—the wrong man at the right place—rather than someone who earned his stripes.

Source: Mint June 01, 2018 09:45 UTC