Mani Shankar Aiyar, while reviewing Sandeep Bamzai s Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India in the Open Magazine, wrote, quoting extensively from the book:
Nehru never hid his contempt for India's monarchs. He loathed the "gilded and empty-headed maharajas and nawabs who strut about the Indian scene and make a nuisance of themselves". To belittle his contributions to the freedom movement .
Mani Shankar Aiyar, while reviewing Sandeep Bamzai s Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India in the Open Magazine, wrote, quoting extensively from the book:
Nehru never hid his contempt for India s monarchs. He loathed the "gilded and empty-headed maharajas and nawabs who strut about the Indian scene and make a nuisance of themselves".
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was the master of epistemology. Equally, like Nehru, he had complete disregard for the popinjay princelings with their quaint idiosyncrasies and monumental egos.On December 16, 1947, Sardar explained the background and .