EPISODE · Mar 21, 2024 · 48 MIN
Past Imperfect Episode 12: Dr Taylor Sherman on the myths of Nehru's India
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How much of history is mythmaking? In this episode, Taylor Sherman, author of Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths, tackles some shibboleths of India’s first seventeen years of independence. How nonaligned was nonalignment? Could socialist policies actually widen socioeconomic disparities? Was Nehru really the architect of modern India? The answers, Sherman discovers, are far more messy and complex than we imagine.
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