Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

been Patel’s. (The Home Ministry under Patel conducted a campaign of petty harassment not merely of Muslims, but also of communi ...

be non-sectarian, even as he denied allegations in the press that there were serious differences between the two men. Gandhi, th ...

following assurances from Hindu and Muslim leaders that there would be no further violence, he had a hand grenade thrown at him ...

On February 12, Gandhi’s ashes were immersed at the sacred confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna rivers at Allahabad, coinciden ...

of the RSS had been involved. Here, indeed, was a good example of a deferral of a problem rather than its solution. But at the t ...

him – on September 13, 1948, the Indian Army conducted what was referred to as ‘police action’ in Hyderabad state, incorporating ...

accession to India as the result of ‘fraud and violence’ – had wanted to send regular Pakistan army troops into Kashmir, but was ...

to release Sheikh Abdullah from jail, and to seek the National Conference’s cooperation. Nehru hoped that the National Conferenc ...

control’ that divides ‘Indian Kashmir’ from ‘Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir’ or ‘Azad Kashmir’ is such a line.) The desired plebiscit ...

old trick of placing Nehru in a position of formal responsibility from which he could not exercise power. Gandhi, however, had b ...

Socialist Party to take up the cause of socialism. As part of its farewell to Congress, however, the Socialist Party expressed t ...

This hyper-democratic tendency was in contrast to the reputation Nehru was beginning to develop for being irritable, impatient a ...

mirrored the socialists’ own position on the communists.^20 Narayan was unconvinced; he had told the Socialist Party conference ...

Committee, but voiced his disapproval of Tandon’s views and his selec- tion of Congress Working Committee members. Then, on Dece ...

Telengana uprisings, and led a chorus of objections in Parliament, from inside and outside the Congress, to accepting Soviet whe ...

candour and intimacy. He came across to diverse audiences, to sophisti- cated intellectuals and landless peasants alike, as a ma ...

the Congress’s statement of its economic objectives had not exactly been precise; it spoke of the need for ‘social justice and e ...

industries for the benefit of ‘400 million Indians and not a few industri- alists and capitalists’, even as he called for worker ...

entitled to possess by the nominal redistribution of his land within his own family. From Nehru’s point of view, these blockages ...

avatarwere disappointed by the prime minister’s now infinitely more cautious, even conservative, behaviour. But the Nehruvians w ...