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JAWAHARLAL
NEHRU
The
Statesman as Writer |
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C.D. Narasimhaiah |
| ISBN:
81-85753-41-5 |
| Year
of Pub:
2001 |
| Price:
Rs.300.00 |
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The
Book :
This study, focussed on Jawaharlal Nehru
the writer, examines his construction of the Indian nation,
his role as a citizen of the world, his distinct historiography,
his strong affinities with nature, his subjectivity and the
inter-textuality of his books, his limpid prose couched in
human idiom, and several other issues. It also critiques all
the major books of Nehru and demonstrates that the statesman
and the writer in him are unisolable aspects of his integrated
personality.
The discourse in this volume covers a whole range of tangled
and at times contested issues including Nehru's views on provincialism,
casteism, linguism and communalism, the attributes of his
literary sensibility, his engagement with the socio-political
and cultural movements within and outside India, his profound
concern for human predicament in his times, and his dynamism
and compassion which struck spontaneous rapport with the masses.
The volume makes stimulating and rewarding reading.
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The
Author :
C.D. Narasimhaiah, educated at the Universities of Mysore
and Cambridge, was Professor of English at the University
of Mysore from 1950 to 1979. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton
University (1949-50) and Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at
Yale University (1958-59), he was Visiting Professor at
several universities, including Leeds (U.K.), Texas (U.S.A.),
Queensland and Flinders (Australia). He is currently Director,
The Literary Criterion Centre for English Studies and Indigenous
Arts, Dhvanyaloka, Mysore.Professor Narasimhaiah has authored
/ edited over a dozen books published, among others, by
Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Indian Institute of
Advanced Study, Shimla and Pencraft International, Delhi.
His major book-length studies include The Swan and the Eagle,
Essays in Commonwealth Literature and Makers of Indian English
Literature.Professor Narasimhaiah was elected (Global) Chairman,
Association for Commonwealth Literature (1974-77), and President,
All India English Teachers' Conference (1989). Awarded Padma
Bhusan by the Government of India in the year 1990, he ranks
among the most sensitive, bold, and distinguished scholar-critics
of India.Cover Photograph: Courtesy Nehru Memorial Museum
and Library New Delhi
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The
Review : CDN's strengths
as a literary critic are evident throughout this book and
his assessment of Nehru the man of letters is marked by the
characteristic Leavisian analysis involving close reading,
quoting extensively from the texts and through comparisons.
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