After serving in Jawaharlal Nehru’s government for ten years, Sarvepalli Gopal wrote ‘Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography (Volume I: 1889–1947)’. ‘From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India’ was written by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, mentioning about the emergence of India as a nation. ‘The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1926–1934’ is a study of imperfect mobilisation by Gyanendra Pandey. ‘Gandhi in His Time and Ours – The Global Legacy of His Ideas’ was written by David Hardiman.