TY - BOOK AU - Akbar, M.J TI - Nehru : the making of India SN - 9788174362056 U1 - 954.042092 PY - 2002/// CY - New Delhi PB - Lotus Collection KW - Prime ministers-india KW - Politics and government KW - jawaharlal nehru N2 - Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, was the ideological and political heir of Gandhi. Building on the Mahatma's foundations, as leader both of the Congress and of independent India from 1947, Nehru shaped the new state: his story is India's story. Born in Allahabad on 14 November 1889, Nehru was a Kashmiri Brahmin, a member of India's most aristocratic caste ER -