Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

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PREFACE Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) is remembered as a major leader of the Indian nationalist movement and the first prime mini ...

‘beating his luminous wings largely in vain.’^1 ‘Our beautiful but inef- fectual angel’, because we all assumed he wanted to do ...

Murti Bhavan, to wear in his buttonhole. The red rose may have been a symbol of love, intended to stand either for Nehru’s love ...

of his public life. Two quiet claims to some originality can be made here. I think it is imperative to reconnect the domestic an ...

system of transliteration, except where the Wade-Giles is more familiar, e.g. Chiang Kai-Shek instead of Jiang Jieshi. As with a ...

Peshawar Rawalpindi Simla Lahore Karachi Rajkot Bombay Delhi Nagpur Hyderabad Madras Calcutta Dacca Allahabad Shilong Cuttack MY ...

Political cartoon by Shankar Pillai, November 10, 1963 © The Children’s Book Trust, Delhi ...

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INTRODUCTION If a person had the luxury of choosing the moment in historical time in which to be remembered, Jawaharlal Nehru ou ...

It nevertheless does represent a good many of the positive achievements of India in the Nehruvian years. For some years after hi ...

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING JAWAHARLAL A combination of factors brought Jawaharlal Nehru into political prominence. He belonged to a ...

political scene, Nehru seemed to provide stability and reason; with him they could do business. Logically enough, sections of th ...

the Congress’ right wing as the public face of the Congress was that Nehru was a popular leader. His involvement with trade unio ...

What, then, was the importance of the ‘masses’ in colonial Indian politics? Since the vast majority didn’t qualify for the vote, ...

that convinces all classes to back the agenda of the national bourgeoisie, because that agenda is allegedly in the interest of t ...

of the colonial intellectual, and following from that, the problem of colonial nationalist intellectuals ‘indigenising’ themselv ...

argument, better than that of an inauthentic minority that would exploit its own ignorant people (which, naturally, the imperial ...

unconcerned with caste, religion and the forms of religious nationalism that were on offer in his time; and he was often rather ...

1 THE MAKING OF A COLONIAL INTELLECTUAL Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad on November 14, 1889, the son of the lawyer Motil ...