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Nehru and the British

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

B. R. Nanda
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‘Communist, Revolutionary, most capable and most implacable of the enemies of the British connection with India,’ this is how Winston Churchill described Jawaharlal Nehru in 1937. Most British politicians, and the ‘guardians’ of the Empire would have agreed with the verdict.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , May 1996, pp. 469 - 479
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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