New Vision for America: Toward Human Solidarity Through Global Democracy Book

The book is definitely a good read. The author is intelligent, with keen interest in politics, architecture and history.

He has given a first hand account of the lives of Indian royalty during pre-independence days- their palaces & forts, cars, lifestyle and hunts, their place and tribulations in the new, emerging India, the realtionship between Pt Nehru and Lady Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's influence over the Indian leadership which is all true to the book's title. N S Sarila has also made a point against democracy, which appears to be correct and relevant during the current times- that it creates vote bank or identity politics.

The book has also highlighted a much ignored competetion for influence in the 50s of the last century between USA and Britian over newly independent countries. The British tried to influence early Indian leadership against becoming a sovereign nation. They wanted India to remain a dominion under the British Monarch. It has also exposed the British hand behind Kashmir turmoil- They wanted western Kashmir (Gilgit and Pakistani Occupied Kashmir) to remain under the control of Pakistan because of its geographical location. It is well known that the allied powers created Pakistan as their bulwark against the former Soviet Union which wanted access to Arabian Sea.

To summarize, a book worth reading.