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Nehru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Percival Spear
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The observer who travelled in India in early 1965 found no one lower in public estimation than the late Pundit Jawarharlal Nehru. Not yet dead a year, it seemed that there was nothing that he had done which was right. Population?—he should have taken steps to control it. Language?—he had failed to control the Hindi faction and had weakly compromised. Corruption?—he had denounced but failed to act, had even shielded guilty parties. Non-involvement?—it had led India into isolation, and as for China, the less said about that painful subject the better. If Mahatma Gandhi was the forgotten man of early 1965, Nehru was the rejected man.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1967 , pp. 15 - 29
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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References

1 Mughal Emperor. Reigned 1556–1605.Google Scholar

2 Ibid. 1658–1707.

3 Congress leader from Gurarat, 1875–1950.

4 In 1936.

5 1884–1963. First President of the Indian Union, 1930–62.

6 Nehru went to Harrow School in 1905. He took his degree from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1910.

7 Fabianism was rife in the Cambridge of his day.

8 De Vigny, A., Moïse.Google Scholar

9 Mrs Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

10 Mrs Indira Gandhi.

11 The Constitution of India, section 40.

12 God of the famous temple at Puri in Orissa. The term was used by Evangelical critics of the East India Company's countenance of some Hindu customs and institutions.

13 Leaders like Surendranath Bannerjee were connected with the zamindar class.

14 Constitution of India, section I (i): ‘India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.’ Bharat is the classical Indian name for the Indo-Aryan homeland.

15 Drawn up by Sir John Sargent, Educational Commissioner with the Government of India.

16 Sanskrit legal texts claiming religious authority.

17 Premier of Madras, 1952–1962. President of Congress.

18 Premier of the Punjab.

19 Akbar's chief minister and confidant.

20 Akbar's revenue minister.

21 Raja of Jaipur, a leading Rajput supporter of Akbar.