Publisher's Synopsis
This volume covers the period from 1 January to 6 April 1948. During this period communal tension reached unprecedented levels and resulted in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Though weighed down by personal sorrow, Nehru did not falter in the task of pulling the people back to sanity. He strove to see that the minorities in India received fair treatment, and that the country was not dragged into war with Pakistan, whatever the provocations of the other side and the quibblings of the western powers at the United Nations on the question of Kashmir. As the speeches and writings in this volume reveal, in a short period of time, almost every essential of India's future came under scrutiny and was often under attack. It was Nehru's task to resist the forces of reaction on every front and place the country on the right road.;Historians, political scientists, journalists, and students of history and political science.
