Books | Nehru’s Vision

Aditya Mukherjee

The period from 1946 to 1952, from the time Nehru took over as the head of the interim government till he as prime minister led independent India into its first general election, was the phase when the very ‘idea of India’ was tested against the most overwhelming odds. Independence was accompanied by the partition of the country and widespread religious communal violence. It was a holocaust-like situation where a…