The Nehrus are a dynasty without precedent in the modern world; nowhere else and at no other time in recent history has a single family wielded such enduring an

India, the largest democracy in the world, has for almost all its existence been ruled by the members of a single family. This biography tells of the Nehru fami

Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no tradition of demo