Elegant, perceptive, and startlingly prophetic, Nehru: a contemporary's estimate is one of the finest accounts of Nehru ever written. Walter Crocker, the Australianhigh commissioner to India, admired Nehru the man - his grace, style, intelligence andenergy - and was deeply critical of many of his political decisions - the invasion ofGoa, India's Kashmir policy, the Five Year Plans. This book, written shortly after Nehru's death, is full of invaluable first hand observations about the man and his politics. Muchof Crocker's points, too - especially the implications of the Five Year Plans and of theintroduction of democracy to India - are particularly relevant today. Out of print formany years, this classic biography has been reissued with a new foreword by Ram Guha.