Ideology and Politics in Modern India-Bipan Chandra

This volume brings together a number of essays on the political and ideological aspects of modern Indian history written by the eminent historian. Prof. Bipan Chandra, over roughly the last decade. The central essay of the collection is a study of Jawaharlal Nehru which aims at an evaluation of his contribution to the making of modern India in an attempt to find out why even the staunchest critics, look back with nostalgia on the 'Nehru era'.