This third and final volume of Sarvepalli Gopal's biography of Jawaharlal Nehru covers the last eight years of his life and Prime Ministership- It deals with his efforts to sustain the economic and social advance of the Indian people and not to lose hold of the principles of his foreign policy even while relations with China deteriorated, culminating in large scale aggression in both the wester…
Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, Volume One, 1889–1947 is the first part of Sarvepalli Gopal’s definitive and scholarly biography of India’s first prime minister. This volume traces Nehru’s early life, education, and political awakening, offering a detailed account of his involvement in India’s struggle for independence alongside Mahatma Gandhi. Gopal examines Nehru’s evolving pol…
Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, Volume Two, 1947–1956 continues Sarvepalli Gopal’s authoritative and detailed account of the life of India’s first Prime Minister. This volume begins with India’s independence in 1947 and explores Nehru’s central role in shaping the new nation—politically, socially, and institutionally. Gopal examines Nehru’s leadership in establishing democratic…
Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, Volume Three, 1956–1964 by historian Sarvepalli Gopal is the concluding volume of the authoritative and most comprehensive biography of India’s first prime minister. Covering the final years of Nehru’s life, the book examines his political challenges, including India’s evolving foreign policy, relations with China leading to the 1962 war, the reorganizatio…
An authoritative and comprehensive account of Jawaharlal Nehru’s early life, political awakening, and his prominent role in India’s struggle for independence. Drawing from private letters, archival materials, and official documents, Gopal presents an in-depth analysis of Nehru’s intellectual development, his relationship with Mahatma Gandhi, and his emergence as a leading figure of the In…
A detailed historical and political account of Nehru’s crucial early years as the first Prime Minister of independent India. This volume explores Nehru’s leadership during the nation-building period, his domestic policies, foreign relations, and the challenges India faced after independence. Drawing on archival materials, personal papers, and official documents, Gopal provides deep insights…
This first volume of Sarvepalli Gopal's remarkable biography, covering Nehru's youth and ending with independence in 1947, is written from first-hand knowledge of the man whom he served for ten years in the Ministry for External Affairs and from the free access granted him by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to her father's private papers. The only surviving son of a politically ambitious lawyer, …
The second volume of Sarvepalli Gopal's remarkable work covers the first nine years of Nehru's prime ministership. Like the first volume, it is more than a biography, describing and analysing in detail both domestic and foreign issues of the period: the struggle between India and Pakistan for Kashmir, the first elections of free India based on adult suffrage; Korea, the Suez crisis, the invasio…
The second volume of Sarvepalli Gopal's unique work covers the first nine years of Nehru's prime ministership. Like the first volume, it is more than a biography, describing and analyzing in detail both domestic and foreign issues of the period: the struggle between India and Pakistan for Kashmir, the first elections of free India based on adult suffrage, Korea, the Suez crisis, the invasion of…