The growing historical literature on the national movement in India is as yet comparatively poor in good biographical works. Two recent publications—S. Gopal’s Nehru and now B.R. Nanda’s Gokhale—will go a long way in filling this gap. Here is an authoritative, extensively researched, scrupulously fair and extremely…
Reviewed by: Rajat Ray
Ethnography is an art not very different from writing a novel. It is holistic. The anthropologist submerges his own special professional interest to study the whole society. But the personality of this author remains distinct and accounts for part of the uniqueness of the monograph…
Reviewed by: Rajeshwari Rao