Kavita Puri

Nehru’s plans for a new India were sadly short-lived

Despite the leader’s commitment to secularism and democracy, the persecution of Muslims and Dalits continued after independence

Jawaharlal Nehru. [Getty Images] 
issue 14 January 2023
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  • Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths

    Taylor C. Sherman

    Princeton, pp. 312, £28

In Jawaharlal Nehru’s final will and testament he asked for most of his ashes be taken in an aeroplane and scattered ‘over the fields where the peasants of India toil, so they might mingle with the dust and soil of India and become an indistinguishable part of India’. Taylor C.

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