Stanley Wolpert
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Stanley Wolpert is an American historian who specializes in the history of India and Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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[edit] Scholarship
- Nine hours to Rama (Random House 1962)
- Morley and India, 1906-1910 (1967).
- A New History of India (Oxford (1977)
- Roots of Confrontation in South Asia (1982)
- Jinnah of Pakistan (Oxford 1984)
- Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan (1993)
- Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny (1996)
- Gandhi's Passion (2001)
- Shameful Flight (2006)
[edit] Film
Wolpert's 1962 book, Nine Hours to Rama was adapted as the 1963 film, Nine Hours to Rama. It starred J.S. Casshyap as Mahatma Gandhi and Horst Buchholz as Naturam Godse. [1]
Cinematic depictions of and references to Mahatma Gandhi |
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1963: Nine Hours to Rama (J. S. Casshyap) · 1982: Gandhi (Ben Kingsley) · 1993: Sardar (Annu Kapoor) · 1996: The Making of the Mahatma (Rajit Kapur) · 1998: Jinnah (Sam Dastor) · 2000: Hey Ram (Naseeruddin Shah) · 2000: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (Mohan Gokhale) · 2001: Veer Savarkar (Surendra Rajan) · 2004: Swades · 2005: Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara (himself) · 2005: Mangal Pandey: The Rising (himself) · 2005: Water (Mohan Jhangiani) · 2006: Lage Raho Munna Bhai (Dilip Prabhavalkar) · 2007: Shankar Dada Zindabad (Dilip Prabhavalkar) · 2007: Gandhi, My Father (Darshan Jariwala) |
[edit] Controversy
In Wolpert's book Nehru: A Tryst With Destiny, Wolpert claims that Nehru had a homosexual relationship with a teacher.
