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Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths Taylor C. Sherman

Princeton, pp.312, 28

In Jawaharlal Nehru’s final will and testament he asked for most of his ashes be taken in an aeroplane and scattered ‘over the fields where the peasants of India toil, so they might mingle with the dust and soil of India and become an indistinguishable part of India’. Taylor C.

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