Nehru
Subtitle: The Invention of India
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: December 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781559707374
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Biography: general; India - History; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; India; Historical - General; Presidents & Heads of State; Biography & Autobiography / General
First sentence: In January 1889, or so the story goes, Motilal Nehru, a twenty-seven-year-old lawyer from the north Indian city of Allahabad, traveled to Rishikesh, a town holy to Hindus, up in the foothills of the Himalayas on the banks of the sacred river Ganga (Ganges).