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The preface emphasizes candid, nontraditional storytelling that preserves political and personal observations as historical facts, guided by Frederic Masson’s view that history should examine the whole human being. New details are presented on key figures, the decision-making process, and how powerful actors sought to influence Nehru for ends beyond nation-building.","M.O.Mathai,Nehru's SpecialAssistant and alter ego between1946 and 1959,was reputed to bethe most powerful man after thePrime Minister during the years thathe served Jawaharlal.·  \nFor over a decade that he was atthe very hub of the decision-makingprocess,Mathai was the only one toknow everything about Nehru,mostespecially the first Prime Minister'sprivate thoughts about Politics,Congress leaders,Bureaucrats,Money,Women,Sex,and Alcohol,along with much else that attractedhis attention off and on.  \nThe author reveals all,withcandour and sincerity,and says,\"Before I started writing this bookI suspended from my mind allpersonal loyalties of a conventionalnature;only my obligation tohistory remained.\"  \nSo we have completely newinformation,never before published,about Nehru's style,KrishnaMenon's personal habits,Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit'sextravagance,Feroze Gandhi'sambitions,and Mountbatten'sweakness for titles and honours.Inthe process,new light is thrown onShastri,Indira Gandhi,Patel,Kidwai,TTK,Maulana Azad,Rajaji,Rajendra Prasad,Radhakrishnan,Churchill,Shaw,and Lady Mountbatten.  \nThis work is a major contributionto modern Indian history as it givesan insider's view of how thepowerful often tried to manipulateNehru for purposes that were notalways conducive to nation-building.  \nM.O.MATHAI,Nehru's SpecialAssistant till 1959,when heresigned his post on account ofunfounded malicious allegations byCommunists against him formisusing power,is eminentlyqualified to write a full andauthentic account of the Nehruyears,which he has done in thisbook.  \nWhile he worked for the PrimeMinister,the author was known forhis determination to serve Nehrualone,just as he was also famousfor his unquestioned personalintegrity and honesty in dealingwith political and financial matters.  \nSince his resignation in 1959,Mathai has been living a quiet life,collecting material for this book.The petty ambitions which swaymost men never troubled him.He hasplayed his part in building up freeIndia and with deep sadness watchedhow Nehru's country was beingweakened.But he knows that thefoundations which Nehru laid willever be safe even though hisdaughter administered a severe joltto them.  \nAt present M.O.Mathai is workingon a companion volume to thiswork in Madras where he nowlives.  \n,  Jacket Design:Vikas Studio  \n1V02M5801  \n# REMINISCENCES OF THENEHRU AGE\n\n# Reminiscencesof theNehru Age\n\nM.O.Mathai  \nVIKAS PUBLISHING HOUSE PVT LTD5 Ansari Road,New Delhi 110002  \nSavoy Chambers,5 Wallace Street,Bombay 40000110 First Main Road,Gandhi Nagar,Bangalore 5600098/1-B Chowringhee Lane,Calcutta 70001680 Canning Road,Kanpur 208004  \nCOPYRIGHT   M.O.MATHAI,1978  \nISBN 0706906217  \n1V02M5801  \nFirst Published,1978Second Impression,1978Third Impression,1978Fourth Impression,1978Fifth Impression,1978Sixth Impression,1978  \nDistributed By:  \nBOOKS FROM INDIA LTD.69 Great Russell StreetLONDON WC1B 3BQPhone:01-4057226  \nTo Priya,two,and Kavitha,five—two lively neighbourhood childrenwho played with me,oftendodging their parents,during the period ofwriting this book  \n## Preface\n\nThis book is not history or biography,but chatty stuff containingmy reminiscences.No doubt it contains historical and biographi-cal data pertaining to a significant period of India's history.  \nWhen a number of friends urged me to write my reminiscences,I said“Either I shall write without inhibition or not at all.”Inwriting this book I have been largely guided by the philosophycontained in the Introduction to Vol.V(1902)of his monumentalthirteen-volume work,Napoleon et sa Famille,by Frederic Masson.He states:  \n\"It is time to cease at last making this senseless distinctionbetween the public man,whom history may claim and the privateperson in whom she has no right.There is only the human being;a person's character is indivisible like his nature.As soon as a manhas played a historic part,he belongs to history.History lays herhand upon him wherever she happens to come across him,for thereis no fact in his e","cbCaitu1KsYv5ksb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitu1KsYv5ksb","pdf",59455911,1,170,"English","en",105,"# Preface","[{\"question\":\"What kind of book does M.O. 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