Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

further the interests of his caste, not to mention his personal fortunes. In 1963–4, defence expenditure doubled as a result of ...

CONCLUSION: DEATH, SUCCESSION, LEGACY The Nehruvian aura was beginning to fade by the end of 1962, and with it the legitimacy th ...

‘Kamaraj Plan’, named after a quiet, soft-spoken Congressman, the Madras chief minister, K. Kamaraj Nadar, but attributed to Bij ...

Jagjivan Ram (Transport and Communications), Lal Bahadur Shastri (Home) and S.K. Patil (Food and Agriculture) – and six chief mi ...

colleague and blood brother’,^2 but this sounded a little hollow. With Nehru’s consent – even if he had occasionally protested a ...

spectacle, replete with Vedic hymns sung and Hindu priests chanting – in flagrant disregard of his express wishes that no religi ...

been more inclined to a certain authoritarianism – not institutionally, but due to his personal abilities and reputation. He had ...

legitimacy; Mrs Gandhi had been a compromise candidate, but it was soon discovered that she was not inclined to let others contr ...

and gone earlier, in the 1930s and perhaps the 1940s. It is possible that Nehru remained in the Congress and at the head of the ...

However, if we rule out the role of foreign pressures in the day-to- day working of the government – in, for instance, the detai ...

In January 1956, asked to comment on the differences in his politics from his earlier years, Nehru replied, ‘one tones down in a ...

whether they could simply produce less but continue to make abnormal profits due to the oligopoly of a few industrialists, is a ...

majority was enforcing anything on the Muslim minority led to a fossil- isation of that category of ‘personal law’: as late as 1 ...

much. But philosophers of defeat can also be too pessimistic. Nehru’s one unambiguous triumph, that of having held the sectarian ...

‘tribal’ and so on. These undoubtedly would have been seen as failures by Nehru himself: a perpetuation of the ‘medieval’ and a ...

NOTES PREFACE 1 Hiren Mukerjee, The Gentle Colossus(Manisha Granthalaya, 1964; new edition, Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. ...

already died on December 2; Jawaharlal did not hear of the death until his father’s next letter. 11 MN to JN, January 18, 1906, ...

9 JN, An Autobiography, p. 44. 10 JN, An Autobiography, p. 46. 11 Judith Brown, Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope(Yale University Press, ...

14 Reprinted in SWJN, volume 6, pp 1–31; quote from p. 16. 15 Abdur Rahim to Nehru, October 26, JNP, NML, Vol 1, p. 24. 16 Quote ...

volume 54, p. 58. Narayan had been particularly close to Nehru, and addressed him as ‘bhai’ (brother). 40 Subhas Bose, quoted fr ...