'Who is Bharat Mata?'
Subtitle: on history, culture and the idea of India : writings by and on Jawaharlal Nehru
By: edited and with an introduction by Purushottam Agrawal
Contributors: Agravāla, Purushottama, editor, contributor; Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948, author; Singh, Bhagat, 1907-1931, author; Āzād, Abūlkalām, 1888-1958, author; Patel, Vallabhbhai, 1875-1950, author; Asaf Ali, Aruna, 1909- author; Baldev Singh, 1921- author; Chakravartty, Nikhil, author; Chakravarty, Sukhamoy, author; Duggal, Kartar Singh, 1917-2012, author; Jaʻfrī, ʻAlī Sardār, 1913-2000, author; Kashyap, Subhash C., author; Roy Burman, B. K., author; Tinbergen, Jan, 1903-1994, author; Abdullah, Mohammad, Sheikh, 1905-1982, author; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968, author; Bandyopādhyāẏa, Anu, author; Grigg, John, 1924-2001, author; Cousins, Norman, author; Attenborough, Richard, author; Lee, Kuan Yew, 1923-2015, author; Vajpayee, Atal Bihari, 1924-2018, author
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9789386702845; 9789386702852; 9789386702876
Subjects: History; Histoire; Politics and government
Description: "Who is Bharat Mata?" contains selections from Nehru's classic books - An Autobiography, Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India; his speeches, essays and letters from the re- and post-Independence years; and some of his most revealing interviews. The concluding section of the book comprises reminiscences and addessments of Nehru by some of his contemporaries and near contemporaries - among them, Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad, Aruna Asaf Ali, Sheikh Abdullah, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Ali Sardar Jafri, Baldec Singh, Martin Luther King Lr, Richard Attenborough, Lee Kuan Yew, and Atal Bihar Vajpayee. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-472).
Table of contents: title: Book I : Nehru on India and the World; title: The Idea and the Making of India; title: Understanding India; title: Indian History and Icons; title: Making a New India; title: The National Movement; title: Religion and Spirituality; title: Culture, Literature and Science; title: Book II: On Nehru; title: Nehru on Nehru; title: We Want No Caesars; title: India and the World on Nehru; title: 'Jawahar Will be My Successor' / Mahatma Gandhi; title: New Leaders and Their Different Ideologies / Bhagat Singh; title: Maulana Azad on Nehru / Maulana Abul Kalam Azad; title: Leader of Our Legions / Vallabhbhai Patel; title: My Discovery of Jawaharlal / Aruna Asaf Ali; title: Nehru and Indian Science / Baldev Singh; title: Nehru, Press and Parliament / Nikhil Chakravartty; title: The Nehru Legacy in Planning / Sukhamoy Chakravarty; title: Growing Up in the Nehru Era / Kartar Singh Duggal; title: Some Early Memories / Ali Sardar Jafri; title: 'Mahatma ji and Pundt Ji are Great Souls of Our Times..." / Bhagwadacharya; title: Nehru and the Making of the Constitution / Subhash C. Kashyap; title: Nehru and the Tribals / B.K. Roy Burman; title: Nehru as Seen by an Economist / Jan Tinbergen; title: Poet, Thinker and Man of Action / Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah; title: The Will to Peace / Martin Lurther King, Jr; title: Ever Human / Anu Bandyopadhyaya; title: Remembering Nehru / Amrital Nagar; title: The Genius of Nehru / John Grigg; title: Dinkar on Nehru / Ramdhari Singh Dinkar; title: Man and Symbol, A Fragmentary Appreciation / Norman Cousins; title: Memories of the Making of Gandhi / Richard Attenborough; title: First of the Afro-Asians / Lee Kuan Yew; title: A.B. Vajpayee's Tribute to Nehru / Atal Bihari Vajpayee