Nehru: A Contemporary's Estimate

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Nehru: A Contemporary's Estimate

Elegant, perceptive, and startlingly prophetic, Nehru: A Contemporaryâ€™s Estimate is one of the finest accounts of Nehru ever written. Walter Crocker, the Australian high commissioner to India, admired Nehru the manâ€”his grace, style, intelligence and energyâ€”and was deeply critical of many of his political decisionsâ€”the invasion of Goa, Indiaâ€™s Kashmir policy, the Five Year Plans. This book, written shortly after Nehruâ€™s death, is full of invaluable first hand observations about the man and his politics. Many of Crockerâ€™s points, tooâ€”especially the implications of the Five Year Plans and of the introduction of democracy to Indiaâ€”are particularly relevant today. Out of print for many years, this classic biography has been reissued with an authoritative foreword by Ramachandra Guha.