India was steaming ahead, forging an identity that would define her place in the world in the decades to come. Nehru was remaking the country in his own image, penning a national fairy tale to rival the myth - making of the Hindu pantheon. A lingering hangover from the colonial era might have dulled her political senses, but India was now awake, seven millennia of tradition and history reasserting itself.

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