A beautiful attempt to placate the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty. The author has defended the indefensible actions while glorifying all the good actions. I am impressed how conveniently he has managed to omit the achievements of non-congress, non-left governments, moreover found faults in their most successful acts. Clearly biased book but a must-read for loyalists.
Well, Better read congress advertisement than reading this book.As a historian it has been epic failure of Bipan Chandra to have preconceived notions about all the past events and personalities.So any one planning to purchase please refrain from thi book.
This book has a lot of selective information and the explanations are questionable. Fortunately, there are better books out there.