Hardcover: 438 pages
Publisher: Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division (January 1981)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0706912756
ISBN-13: 978-0706912753
“Reasons of State”, written in 1982, is a Political Development and also India’s Foreign Policy Under Indira Ghandi. In this non-fiction of Tharoor’s Nehru’s contradictions are slurred over as if merely a source of amusement, but Jinna is treated as a pathological cynic while the British are alternately clumsy and reactionary. Tharoor’s treatment of Churchill is as harsh as it is shallow. This book gives a quick bio of Nehru. This is an excellent write-up of Tharoor. It can be mentioned as the major works on Nehru. This book is easy to read because of its clear and straightforward writing style. This creation of Shashi Tharoor is a most enjoyable interpretive history of Nehru’s amazing life. This book has the capability to bring tears in reader’s eyes when Nehru dies in the story. This is a rare example in case of non-fiction. Tharoor gives a better context for understanding contradictory statements. He made the readers question what Nehru and the freedom fighters would think of India and the world today. This is a masterpiece of the author Shashi Tharoor.