Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

declared that ‘where democracy and civil liberties are in existence, the transition to socialism must be peaceful and through de ...

nationalist movement, to the extent that a businessman’s demand was a demand for national industry, it was a national demand tha ...

In a way, Nehru’s theoretical scenario – economic man replacing sectarian man – had been tested by events elsewhere in India, in ...

must be said by way of qualification, owed much to the firm hand of Krishna Menon, whose London-based Independence for India Lea ...

policy. Many of these were legacies of the peculiarities of colonial rule in India: the problem of the princely states, of Junag ...

pointed out that the Indian Army could at best expect to hold its own against the forces of a similar-sized regional enemy, and ...

in Washington. ‘The United States are a great Power and we want to be friendly with them for many reasons. Nevertheless I should ...

independent foreign policy, and stated that Dulles had showed ‘lack of knowledge of facts and want of appreciation of the policy ...

appointed Indian ambassador to Syria and Italy – suggested that the gathering discuss the formation of a ‘neutrality bloc’ to re ...

had set great store by freedom from economic dependence as a necessary condition of political independence. From the British poi ...

from being drawn upon too quickly. It gradually became clear that the demand for capital goods for their development schemes fro ...

that Britain should honour her financial commitments. The question remained as to how quickly the balances would be released, in ...

possible basis of British power in a post-war world dominated by the USA and the USSR. There was a military aspect to this as mu ...

Head of the Commonwealth’.^34 (‘The fact that even Winston Churchill should fall into line’, Nehru noted, raised suspicion in In ...

numbers by British ‘special forces’ while a battle for the ‘hearts and minds’ of the population was to be undertaken at the same ...

principle: a dilute strand of what many in the Congress openly regarded as a disease, ‘socialism’, administered to the body poli ...

himself, when Neruda met him, was completely unsympathetic to a man he had last met in India in the 1920s as a comrade. ‘I thoug ...

5 CONSOLIDATING THE STATE, c. 1947–55 On August 15, 1947, Nehru, referring to himself as the ‘First Servant of the Indian People ...

But it was Nehru, not Patel, who played the conciliator and the voice of reason, arguing against defining India as ‘Hindu’, tour ...

with Edwina Mountbatten, were cemented in this period of close contact. Lord Mountbatten did his best, with the forces at his di ...