Interview: Atul Mishra on the ‘sovereignty trap’ and Nehru's civilisational reading of India’s past

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Feb 26, 2023 · 10:30 am

‘History is not simply a recounting of the past, but a perspective’: Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Rakhi Dalal

· Nov 12, 2022 · 08:30 am

What would Nehru have made of Ganesh statues ‘drinking’ milk, asks a new book on India’s first PM

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

· Jul 14, 2022 · 08:30 am

Why did Nehru choose centralised planning over the free market?

Shoaib Daniyal

· May 29, 2022 · 08:48 pm

‘Nehru, Tibet and China’: The hostilities and statements that finally led India into war in 1962

AS Bhasin

· Jun 11, 2021 · 08:30 am

Readers’ comments: Why only Modi? Why is there no outrage over institutions named after Nehru?

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· Mar 09, 2021 · 03:30 pm

How JNU was conceived of as a small institution of higher learning but turned into a university

Gyan Prakash

· Dec 28, 2020 · 08:30 am

Jawaharlal Nehru on China: ‘They wanted the Asian world to realise that they are the top dogs’

Scroll Staff

· Jun 21, 2020 · 10:37 am

A new book argues that Jawaharlal Nehru did not lead or manage his armed forces competently enough

Anit Mukherjee

· Oct 18, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘Priceless possession of a free India’: How Vallabhbhai Patel described Jawaharlal Nehru

Vallabhbhai Patel

· Jun 28, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Independent India’s first economic crisis was a challenge for Nehru (and strangely familiar today)

Amit Kapoor Chirag Yadav

· Jan 23, 2019 · 06:30 pm

The real cause of India’s farm crisis? Too many farmers

Girish Shahane

· Dec 05, 2018 · 08:00 am

Scroll Quiz: How much do you know about India’s Independence Day?

Shoaib Daniyal

· Aug 15, 2018 · 10:30 am

Fact check: Did Nehru insult General Thimayya in 1948 after the Indo-Pak War, as Modi claimed?

Shoaib Daniyal

· May 03, 2018 · 08:07 pm

History revisited: Why did Nehru give up his bitter opposition to the Commonwealth and join in 1947?

Shoaib Daniyal

· Apr 24, 2018 · 12:30 pm

History revisited: South India’s anger about its share of tax revenues reflects Bengal’s ire in 1951

Shoaib Daniyal

· Apr 16, 2018 · 12:30 pm

The story of the Englishman who stayed back as a judge in India (and what it tells us about Nehru)

Douglas McDonald-Norman

· Dec 26, 2017 · 11:30 am

Opinion: Is Modi the Mahmud Ghazni of the Nehruvian nation state?

Shiv Visvanathan

· Aug 02, 2017 · 08:00 am

The Weekend Fix: How the secularism of Nehru has vanished under Modi and ten other Sunday reads

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jul 02, 2017 · 09:34 am

Modi embodies the new Kshatriya ideal in Indian democracy – and that could be its vulnerability

Uday Chandra

· Jun 05, 2017 · 08:00 am