Nehru - The Debates that Defined India

Informationen zum Autor DR TRIPURDAMAN SINGH is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Born in 1988 in Agra, Tripurdaman read politics and international studies at the University of Warwick, and subsequently earned a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge. Tripurdaman is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. His books include Sixteen Story Days: The Story of the First Amendment of the Constitution of India. DR ADEEL HUSSAIN is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi and a Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg. Before coming to NYU, he was an Assistant Professor of Legal and Political Theory at Leiden University. He holds a Master's and PhD from the University of Cambridge and is qualified to practise law in Germany. He is also the author of Revenge, Politics, and Blasphemy in Pakistan and Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India. Klappentext 'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic - and which remain deeply relevant and contentious today' Shashi Tharoor, author of Inglorious Empire Zusammenfassung ‘An important contribution … Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic – and which remain deeply relevant and contentious today’Shashi Tharoor, author of Inglorious Empire

Product details

• Authors: Adeel Hussain, Tripurdaman Singh
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780008463861
• ISBN: 978-0-00-846386-1
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, Biography: historical, political & military, Political Ideologies, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Political leaders & leadership, Asian History, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, Political ideologies and movements, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies