This is a multidisciplinary book traversing the fields of politics, philosophy and literature. It examines Nehru’s contribution to communication as a leader in terms of the language that he spoke and wrote, in terms of rhetoric. In rhetoric the book’s axis is the role of metaphors. It is a book that attempts to go beyond the paradigm of Nehru’s emphasis on modernity and change. In this sense, Nehru’s work and writings are closer to Marx and Foucault for they too can be worked upon to go beyond what they are generally perceived to be. This book attempts to show how it is not possible to appropriate Nehru either by the right or the left wing and that how Nehru’s search for identity is akin to the search that some of the inmates of Auschwitz attempted after their survival and release. This book is a plea to inspire further research on Nehru in terms of semiotics. Such an exercise has not been attempted hitherto.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rakesh Gupta
Rakesh Gupta is a professor with the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi since the last twenty-three years. He was Head of the Centre for Political Studies 2000-02 and officiated as Dean, School of Social Sciences from time to time during this period. Prior to this he was with Motilal Nehru College, Delhi University for eleven years. He has been teaching courses on political philosophy, political theory, comparative politics and Indian politics. He specializes on strategic studies and foreign policy. He has co-authored and edited numerous books. Among them are books on Bihar Peasantry, Outer Space, Soviet Union, Civil-Military Relations during Gorbachev Period, Sub Sahara region, Pakistan, Indian Security and USA’s Strategic Defence Initiative. He has published Occasional papers on Russian Military Doctrine (Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi). He has written research papers on Socialist Societies, Foreign Policies of US, Russia, Pakistan, India, on arms control, disarmament and international relations and philosophy of Jean Franchois Lyotard in national and international academic journals. He has written about four hundred articles in dailies, weeklies, monthlies, tabloids and occasional periodicals on current issues of national and international politics.
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