Nehru : a tryst with destiny / Stanley Wolpert
by Wolpert, Stanley 1927-2019
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0195100735
- ISBN 13
- 9780195100730
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About This Item
New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 546 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 536-538) and index. Contents; Tryst with destiny, 1889-1905 -- Master Joe, 1905-1911 -- Reluctant reentry -- The coming of Gandhi -- In and out of prison -- To change or not to change -- At sea -- Toward complete independence -- Return to revolution -- Prison and round tables -- Summit in Delhi -- Rigorus imprisonment -- Out on India's left wing -- Whither Nehru? -- European refresher -- Reclaiming the crown -- Provincial powers -- Western thunder -- War again -- On the eve of revolt -- War behind bars -- From Cripps's mission to ""quit India"" -- Last and longest incarceration -- From prison to power -- Provisional Prime Minister -- Interim Raj -- Freedom and partition -- Days of darkness -- Pandit Prime Minister -- Himself at the top -- Decline and fall -- Good night, sweet prince. Subjects; Nehru, Jawaharlal 1889-1964. Nehru 1889-1964. Prime ministers India ; Biography.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 395320
- Title
- Nehru : a tryst with destiny / Stanley Wolpert
- Author
- Wolpert, Stanley 1927-2019
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195100735
- ISBN 13
- 9780195100730
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ny & Oxford
- Date Published
- 1996
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