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Social/Political Commentary

The Making of Narendra Modi Unmaking of Jawaharlal

byVivekanand Jha

A comprehensively researched account of Article 370's abrogation, tracing its roots to Nehru's foreign policy choices from 1947 to the present.

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English
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Paperback
ISBN
9798885751605
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Overview

On 23 December 2023, the Supreme Court of India upheld the Modi government's decision to abrogate Article 370 and 35A, the provisions that had granted Jammu and Kashmir a special constitutional status since 1949. For Vivekanand Jha, that ruling was the final vindication of his book's central argument: the abrogation was not merely a policy decision but a historical reversal of what he calls the Nehruvian albatross — a framework imposed at Partition that constrained Indian sovereignty over its own territory for seven decades.

The book is one of the few to examine Article 370 alongside India's foreign policy from Independence in 1947 to the present. Jha traces how the special status of J&K shaped India's international posture, complicated its relationships with neighbours and with the diaspora, and provided adversaries with a permanent lever of pressure. The Supreme Court's December 2023 ruling, alongside the earlier Ayodhya judgment, functions in his analysis as the legal signature of a political era — the making of Narendra Modi as a constitutional transformer, achieved precisely by undoing what Jawaharlal Nehru put in place.

Policymakers, students of strategic affairs, and members of the Indian diaspora who want a single account linking domestic constitutional history to foreign policy realities will find Jha's research unusually comprehensive.

ABOUT THE BOOK:- The Making of Narendra Modi, Unmaking of Jawaharlal is an avant-garde book on the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution. A comprehensively researched book, it encompasses the genesis of the issue up until its resolution leading to its repealment from the Constitution. A rare book that discusses the foreign policy of India since 1947 till date, alongside domestic issues, it significantly portrays the evolving role and dimensions of the Indian diaspora in shaping the political trajectory in India. Unequivocally, the judgment of the Supreme Court on December 23, 2023, upholding the decision of the Modi government to nullify Article 370 is tantamount to validating the very title of this book-as this decision, including the earlier decision on Sri Ram Janmabhoomi, marks the making of Narendra, while ensuring the unmaking of Jawaharlal in the process-for the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was a Nehruvian albatross around the neck of Mother India, which found its expression via Article 370 . This book would be of great interest to policy makers, foreign policy experts, diaspora, students of strategic affairs, and to the intelligentsia of the nation and world.

Author

Vivekanand Jha

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vivekanand Jha is a well-known author, academician and a public intellectual. He has taught at various management colleges in Delhi and Mumbai. His current book, The Making of Narendra Modi, Unmaking of Jawaharlal, is the revised edition of the pioneer book with the same title published soon after the abrogation of Article 370 of Indian Constitution. With the verdict of the apex court vindicating the decision of the Modi government, the very title of the book too stands corroborated. This apart, the Sri Ram Janmabhoomi verdict delivered in favour of the reconstruction of the Ram Lalla temple, and the fact that Narendra Modi was the "Ejamaan" at Ram Lalla's Prana Prathishta ceremony, lends further credence to the fact that the Modi era has arrived, bidding goodbye to Nehruvian Secularism that held visiting temples as taboo, leave alone inaugurating the same. Moreover, his recent book, Sanatani Rama , is based on the life of Sanatani Rama, the founder-publisher of Pilgrims . This book was launched on 22nd of January, 2024, in Kathmandu, on the same day as the consecration ceremony at Ayodhya. Significantly, in this book, effort is made to showcase the glory of Sanatan Dharma through the life of Sanatani Rama. Vivekanand Jha's other well-known book is The Bimbette , portraying the life of Mithila and the metropolis, Calcutta. His other books include Narendra Damodardas Modi: No More Apologist , launched in the month of August, 2023, on magic realism and The People's Leader , The Making of Narendra Modi, Unmaking of Jawaharlal , 56 Inches , The Living Legends of Mithila , and its Hindi Version, Mithila Kay Adhunik Diggaj , Yes, I am Bihari , and its Hindi version, Han, Main Bihari Hoon , Delhi Beckons: RaGa for NaMo , When Thousand Lotus Bloom . Vivekanand Jha was facilitated on the occasion of Bihar Diwas 2018 for bringing glory to Bihar at the global forum. Yes, I am Bihari is a globally recognized book and was listed as a best seller. Yes, I can Achieve , was his first book, which he wrote in the year 2011. Vivekanand Jha conducts an online program to educate the nation- Education pe Charcha , which has already completed its 100th Session-the only program on social networking sites to have completed its 100th live session. He has also launched two albums: Saugandh mujhe Maa Ganga ki and Han, main aek Bihari Hoon . Being a well-known political columnist, he has authored thousands of columns for Central Chronicle and news portals like Globalbihari and Himalini .

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