Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

over succession kept his practice busy. To these large landlords the British had promised security of status and landholding aft ...

had then acquired English and proceeded to the British-run Muir Central College in Allahabad, where he was taught to admire Engl ...

The young Jawaharlal’s private tutor, Ferdinand Brooks, had been recommended to Motilal for the job by Annie Besant, Fabian soci ...

that an Indian religion was actually considered noble by Europeans was an empowering one. Theosophy became the route for many En ...

Politics was not always a central concern for Motilal Nehru. The young Jawaharlal’s childhood coincided with the years of succes ...

I can’t think of any appropriate one.’^10 The need for his intervention passed with the death of the infant just over two weeks ...

Jawaharlal later noted that there had been a good deal of anti-Semitism at Harrow. He made no mention of anti-Indian sentiment; ...

a demand for further participation in government, Indians’ membership of the ICS might well be seen as a step in the right direc ...

leadership – indeed, Gandhi, then a young lawyer and political activist in South Africa, followed the movement with interest; hi ...

extremists; his father’s moderacy began to embarrass him. Motilal was sympathetic to the campaign for indigenous manufactures an ...

wounded, sulked until his wife intervened and restored communication between father and son. The Indian National Congress split ...

certain that this Committee will either never meet or come to no conclusion whatever.’ The same session of the Congress gave bir ...

accepted in Britain to criticise British rule. Steps were to be taken, therefore, to disarm this educated class – education bein ...

father – though perhaps this was more to assuage his father’s fears than the truth. He was fond of reading Shaw’s prefaces to hi ...

It is strange but in spite of the homelike feeling I am constantly reminded of the fact that I am a foreigner, an intruder here. ...

at the same time as he studied for his barrister’s examinations, but then settled for the easier option of doing just the one th ...

By 1911, Motilal had selected a suitable Kashmiri Brahmin girl for him to marry. The girl was to be trained in the social skills ...

2 THE YOUNG GANDHIAN Politics was relatively quiet in India at the time of Jawaharlal’s return. The leaders of the Swadeshi move ...

programmes of social service; others got on with their lives. Jawaharlal attended the annual Congress session that year – but no ...

rebellion among the army and the peasantry. Large sections of the Indian people wished for a victory for the Central Powers. Man ...