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Motilal and Jawaharlal Nehru were both prominent Indian men in their own right, Motilal as a widely successful civil lawyer and a popular political figure, and Jawaharlal as a firm nationalist leader and possible heir of the Mahatma. This book discusses Motilal's life and achievements, and examines the first four decades of Jawaharlal's life. It shows that while the father-son tandem played different roles in the nationalist struggle of India, their close emotional bonds helped them influence each other.

This is a collection of 29 essays by a noted scholar of Ghandian studies. Together, they present a composite picture of Gandhi's life and thought.

A biography of Gokhale, one of the pre-eminent leaders of India during its struggle for freedom from colonization, which reassesses the Indian political scene during the last decades of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century.

Full of fascinating and rare halftones of Nehru, this biography strikes a much-needed balance between the adulation accorded Nehru during his lifetime and the denigration - often quite ill-founded - heaped upon since.

The blurred and distorted image of the Moderate Era is partly due to the conscious superiority and almost contempt with which each generation tends to judge its predecessor. To understand the aims, methods, achievements, and limitations of the leaders of the Moderate Era in India, this lecture sets them in the changing political and social context of the times in which their lot was cast.