Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

interpret its work any way its director saw fit. Apart from the obvious work implied by its title, it invited scientists and eco ...

technique solve all problems,” rightly said Comrade Stalin.’^28 The Nehruvians would not altogether have disagreed; it is certai ...

THE RETURN OF THE ‘VILLAGE COMMUNITY’ Received wisdom, corresponding with the emphases recognisable in the public statements of ...

misunderstanding of the ‘autonomy’ and ‘self-sufficiency’ of the village community; when this idea entered the nationalist imagi ...

trend towards redistribution. There was at the time much concern among Indian anti-communists as well as US India-watchers (a gr ...

people’), and so on. ‘Socialism’, which had once been declared foreign by Gandhi, could, indigenised by the introduction of Gand ...

the offensive, after a fashion: the Congress’s ‘Avadi Resolution’, at its annual conference, declared its goal to be a ‘socialis ...

Nehru’s anti-imperialist credentials, which had not been improved by his decision to keep India within the Commonwealth, seeming ...

Conference, at which Britain’s strategic attempt to contain communism by developmental and technical assistance was inaugurated) ...

making. To a certain extent the USSR’s nervousness was justified. Nehru was very careful to separate anti-imperialism from commu ...

[only] to those who are demonstrably on our side and willing to fight for it’.^37 Dean Acheson and George McGhee, however, used ...

time, it would create some resentment among newly-emergent indepen- dent ‘nations’ who felt that Nehru was claiming a dominant r ...

to sovereign statehood on the basis of being a ‘nation’; a problem that did not arise before the rise and naturalisation of nati ...

and correct and – in a mystical flourish that would pander to nationalist sentiment – ‘ancient’ and ‘cultural’: from the time, a ...

require blatantly pro-American voices; it simply amplified as many non- communist and anti-radical voices among intellectuals an ...

against outside entities, which provided the required contingent solidarity around the national idea, and because much of it was ...

wistfully on his return from China in 1954, ‘China has no such problem ... any decision taken by the central government is the n ...

prove so.’^44 (It was not clear from this whether he was not in fact making a case for three languages: ‘Hindi’, ‘Urdu’ and ‘Hin ...

areas to Burma rather than India. There was no particular reason why such areas should have shared an Indian nationalist sentime ...

in the north-east of India that the Nehruvian vision took on its most brutal and violent forms. Kashmir, equally, was now both a ...