Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

events; they were of doubtful legality, given that the constitutional provision for the dismissal of state governments should no ...

himself was almost permitted, in the public eye, to personify all these achievements – even to the extent that if a certain rese ...

6 HIGH NEHRUVIANISM AND ITS DECLINE, c. 1955–63 The ascendancy that Nehru had achieved in Indian politics by 1955 had a disturbi ...

only place for Hindu sectarians to continue to operate was under the protective umbrella of the Congress itself, where Nehru’s l ...

the extent to which foreign affairs, and the Cold War in particular, impinged on Indian domestic affairs.) The year 1955, which ...

‘tear to pieces’ Muhammad Ali – it was quickly clarified that he meant his arguments, not his person.^2 Invitations to Bandung w ...

should have been anticipated in the differences among the original five prime ministers who were the organisers – to some extent ...

some circles as Nehru’s victory over Dulles; but the pacts were still enough of a concern for Nehru to seek to address the dange ...

equality be added to the Panch Sheel; this suggestion made it to the ‘ten principles’ that were adopted by the Bandung Conferenc ...

without aligning with it – and there were fewer strings attached to Eastern than to Western assistance. The USSR’s new respect f ...

World politics, however, refused to stay calm to allow Nehru to take full advantage of the situation. In 1956, the twin crises o ...

to back UN observers in elections – it would set a bad precedent, Nehru claimed, to have foreigners overseeing elections; this w ...

to get the plans to work was based on the answer to the underlying question: would existing vested interests militate against ch ...

Parliament had accepted, a commitment to a ‘socialistic pattern of society’. The 1956 Industrial Policy Resolution replaced the ...

constrained to limit their basic needs. But self-control in terms of consumption was useful to invoke in the education of urban ...

simple, perhaps even sensible: the avowedproject was to be welcomed, but at the same time the impossibility of its achievement u ...

investment and low returns, both unattractive to private investors. The building of infrastructure was a government duty that mo ...

industrial and commercial classes that came into being after independence. In the countryside, landowning dominant castes made s ...

where the communist tactic of ‘capturing’ party units in the 1930s had been so successful that the Congress in effect was the C ...

work. This was made much easier after 1955, when Khrushchev’s visit to India and his endorsement of Nehru’s regime allowed the C ...