India Betrayed

This Book Is, If Not Path-Breaking, Striving As It Does, An Analysis Of Nehru - The Man And The Leader, Yet Unattempted In Indian Political Lexicon. Based On Unimpeachable Sources, The Book Brings Out Vividly The Virtues And Faults Of The Man Who Sat At The Steering Wheel Of This Nation S Destiny After Freedom By Midnight . The Prevarication, Indecisiveness And Lack Of Focus In Nehru S Planning And Prescriptions Have All Been Brought Out With A Surgical Precision. This Book Does Not Merely Record The Events Of Nehru S Cretinuous Legacy That Has Deshaped The Present Indian Polity, And The Profound Effect His Thoughts Have Had On Our Intelligentsia. The Apocalypse Of Nehru S Deeds Is A Series Of Failures And Disasters. Finally, It Also Points Out To Our Present Day Youth Why They Are, Where They Find Themselves Today.

Politics in the post 1947 India

In The Tryst Betrayed, former Indian foreign secretary Jagat Singh Mehta looks back on an eventful career which began on the day after India’s independence. In his lucid and informative style, Mehta sheds light on Nehru’s prophetic assertion of ideological agnosticism (named ‘Non-Alignment’ in 1946) and its distortion by the accidental overlap of decolonization with the Cold War. Mehta argues that Nehru was naïve on China, wishful on the Soviet Union and prejudiced against America. The civil servants were hypnotized by what he refers to as the ‘Panditji knows best’ syndrome. He illustrates that Nehru’s bark was no doubt frightening but his bite not vicious.

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