Volume 48, Number 16 · October 18, 2001
Mrs. India
By Pankaj Mishra
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
by Katherine Frank
London: HarperCollins, 578 pp., £19.99
To be published in the US by Houghton Mifflin next year.
Anand Bhavan, the family mansion of the Nehrus, lies in the small North Indian city of Allahabad. It was bought by Motilal Nehru, the lawyer-father of Jawaharlal, in 1898. It was later added to, and turned into a base for the Congress Party that led India's freedom movement and then ruled India for four decades after independence. It is only a five-minute walk from the campus of Allahabad University, where I lived as an undergraduate student in the mid-1980s, and it is strange to think now that I hardly ever went there.
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