New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2022. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two decades, Taylor Sherman reevaluates the role of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, in shaping the nation. She argues that the notion of Nehru as the architect of independent India, as well as the ideas, policies, and institutions most strongly associated with his premiership - nonalignment, secularism, socialism, democracy, the strong state, and high modernism - have lost their explanatory power.