Doing Time With Nehru

Author : Yin Marsh
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9384757993
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Time with Nehru written by Yin Marsh and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The midnight knock on the door and the disappearance of a loved one into the hands of authorities is a 20th-century horror story familiar to many destined to “live in interesting times.” Yet, some stories remain untold. Such is the account of the internment of ethnic Chinese who had settled for many years in northern India. When the Sino-Indian Border War of 1962 broke out, over 2,000 Chinese-Indians were rounded up, placed in local jails, then transported over a thousand miles away to the Deoli internment camp in the Rajasthan Desert. Born in Calcutta in 1949, and raised in Darjeeling, Yin Marsh was just thirteen years old when first her father was arrested, and then she, her grandmother and her eight-year-old brother were all taken to the Darjeeling Jail, then sent to Deoli. Ironically, Nehru – India’s first Prime Minister and the one who had authorized the mass arrests – had once “done time” in Deoli during India’s war for independence. Yin and her family were assigned to the same bungalow where Nehru had also been unjustly held. Eventually released, Marsh emigrated to America with her mother, attended college, married and raised her own family, even as the emotional trauma remained buried. When her own college-age daughter began to ask questions and when a friend’s wedding would require a return to her homeland, Yin was finally ready to face what had happened to her family. Published by Zubaan.

Author : Yin Marsh
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781480113794
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Time with Nehru written by Yin Marsh and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The midnight knock on the door and the disappearance of a loved one into the hands of authorities is a 20th-century horror story familiar to many destined to "live in interesting times." Yet, some stories remain untold. Such is the account of the internment of ethnic Chinese who had settled for many years in northern India. When the Sino-Indian Border War of 1962 broke out, over 2,000 Chinese-Indians were rounded up, placed in local jails, then transported over a thousand miles away to the Deoli internment camp in the Rajasthan Desert. Born in Calcutta, India in 1949, and raised in Darjeeling, Yin Marsh was only 13 when, first her father was arrested, and then Yin, her aged grand-mother, and eight-year-old brother were all taken to the Darjeeling jail, then sent on to Deoli. Ironically, Prime Minister Nehru, who authorized the mass arrests, had once "done time" in Deoli during the India's rebellion against British rule. Yin and her family were assigned to the very same bungalow where Nehru had also been imprisoned. Eventually released, Marsh emigrated to America with her mother and brother, attended college, married and raised her own family, even as the emotional trauma remained buried. When her own college-age daughter began to ask questions and when a friend's wedding would require a return to her homeland, Yin was finally ready to face what had happened to her family.

Author : Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978651787
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Time with Nehru written by Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life before the India-China Boarder War of 1962, events that led up to it, adn life with my family at an internment camp

Author : Stanley A. Wolpert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nehru written by Stanley A. Wolpert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's first seventeen years of independence were dominated by the goals and dynamic leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. In this authoritative biography, a renowned expert on the history of India examines the life of the country's foremost politician.

Author : Jawaharlal Nehru
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glimpses of World History written by Jawaharlal Nehru and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628721987
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nehru written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive 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 man who would one day help topple British rule and become India’s first prime minister started out as a surprisingly unremarkable student. Born into a wealthy, politically influential Indian family in the waning years of the Raj, Jawaharlal Nehru was raised on Western secularism and the humanist ideas of the Enlightenment. Once he met Gandhi in 1916, Nehru threw himself into the nonviolent struggle for India’s independence, a struggle that wasn’t won until 1947. India had found a perfect political complement to her more spiritual advocate, but neither Nehru nor Gandhi could prevent the horrific price for independence: partition. This fascinating biography casts an unflinching eye on Nehru’s heroic efforts for, and stewardship of, independent India and gives us a careful appraisal of his legacy to the world.

Author : Benjamin Zachariah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134577400
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nehru written by Benjamin Zachariah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nehru's vision of India, its root in Indian politics, society and religion, as well as its viability have been central to historical and present-day views of India. This study provides a insight into Nehru, his time and his legacy.

Author : Jawaharlal Nehru
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of India written by Jawaharlal Nehru and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When J. Nehru was a prisoner in Ahmadnager Fort prison, he wrote this history of India.

Author : PUBLICATIONS DIVISION
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
ISBN 13 : 8123024770
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches Vol. 3 (1953-1957) written by PUBLICATIONS DIVISION and published by Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains speeches of Nehru delivered during 1953 to 1957.

Author : Walter Crocker
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184002130
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nehru written by Walter Crocker and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegant, perceptive, and startlingly prophetic, Nehru: A Contemporary’s Estimate is one of the finest accounts of Nehru ever written. Walter Crocker, the Australian high commissioner to India, admired Nehru the man—his grace, style, intelligence and energy—and was deeply critical of many of his political decisions—the invasion of Goa, India’s Kashmir policy, the Five Year Plans. This book, written shortly after Nehru’s death, is full of invaluable first hand observations about the man and his politics. Many of Crocker’s points, too—especially the implications of the Five Year Plans and of the introduction of democracy to India—are particularly relevant today. Out of print for many years, this classic biography has been reissued with an authoritative foreword by Ramachandra Guha.