Whereas, Sardar Patel's origins were far more humble. Even the westerners where at equal ease interacting with him. Nehru ji had no qualms about smoking / wines and could easily blend with the European cult – a good westerly bias. He was educated abroad, had developed great intelligent leadership and had a good command over language particularly English. Pandit ji came from a well-off family, a high placed rich brahmin class. The author goes to explain, how the personalities of these two leaders were stark extreme. It gave rise to two power centers within the party. During the fag end of the struggle, there developed open differences between Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Congress party was the forbearer of leading the nation to being an independent nation.Let me share few of them that made me stop for a moment and think… Whether this change would have been for worse or for better – is a matter to debate or introspect - but not to gossip for sure. The author has also not shied away from narrating certain instances, events and dynamics between leaders of those times, which could have changed the history if not played the way they had. It is nothing less an amazement to learn, how the leaders worked around turning this dominion into a thriving sovereign republic and rooting the democratic values deep into the constituents making it a vibrant well-established democracy. The author has done a phenomenal work in writing this contemporary history, narrating events nearing India’s independence and post that.Įxcept for his holding extra reverence towards Pandit Nehru, the author has been exceptionally brilliant in sequencing the events, successfully transposing the reader back into time, to get a feel of the hard times of how the great leaders labored the pain in giving birth to such an amazing nation that we proudly call India. I am in the middle of reading this brilliant book “India after Gandhi” written by Mr.

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