Events

The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) invites you to a talk on the book:

Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths

Speaker: Taylor C Sherman, Professor of Modern South Asian History, London School of Economics & Political Science

Friday, 17 February 2023, 5:00 PM IST at the CPR office conference room (Dharma Marg, New Delhi)

About the Book

Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths begins by reevaluating the role of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, in shaping the nation. It argues that the notion of Nehru as the architect of independent India, as well as the ideas, policies, and institutions most strongly associated with his premiership – nonalignment, secularism, socialism, democracy, the strong state, and high modernism – have become myths. Sherman then presents a new, nuanced interpretation of the Nehru years in Indian history.

About the Speaker

Taylor C Sherman was born in the US, and is Professor of Modern South Asian History at the London School of Economics & Political Science. Her previous books include State Violence and Punishment in India (2010), and Muslim Belonging in Secular India: Negotiating Citizenship in Postcolonial Hyderabad (2015).