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Oct 7, 2022, 5 tweets

'Nehru and the Spirit of India' is a critical and nuanced perusal of Jawaharlal Nehru's intellectual and political legacy

This book analyzes the 'politics of friendship' between Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah as it inspects the issue of Kashmir

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The author highlights Nehru’s defense of secularism during the debates of the Constituent Assembly and he also tells about Nehru's reasoning behind curbing free speech in the First Amendment

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee draws from history to illuminate fierce debates in India today: Kashmir, the CAA and hate speech

Bhattacharjee examines the fractured nature of Indian modernity, which Nehru had suggestively called a ‘garb’

The writer stays on Nehru’s view that India is enriched by the encounter of cultures and that we must not discard the past, but engage with it

The author argues for a ‘minoritarian’ approach to national politics and he compels us to learn from the insights of poets and thinkers

'Nehru and the Spirit of India' offers an original perspective on Nehru and Indian history

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