An incisive new biography of the great secularist who--alongside his spiritual father Mahatma Gandhi--led the movement for India's independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world.

The author of India: From Midnight to the Millennium provides a close-up portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, the influential politician who led his newly independent nation from colonialism into the modern world, and his lasting legacy in terms of India's history and world ro