Contributor(s): Taylor C. Sherman | Taylor C. Sherman discusses her forthcoming book, reassessing the Nehru years in Indian history. Here she focuses on Indian socialism as it developed during Jawaharlal Nehru's premiership, and explains how it was shaped by the experience of colonialism and the national movement.

Nehru's India: Seven Myths is due out with Princeton University Press in 2022.

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