Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

Nehru emerged from prison after over 13 months of solitude and isolation in December 1941, to be faced with major changes in the ...

routes and modes of transport reserved for whites, leaving Indians of all classes to fend for themselves. An impending sense of ...

forced Churchill to declare in the House of Commons the following month that this did not, of course, apply to India or the othe ...

purpose. But in making such an offer, he had apparently overshot the mark, and was forced to climb down, saying he had been misu ...

fascists, and was against an anti-British move that might in the end lead to a fascist victory. But short of arguing that Britis ...

sense of the impending end of British rule. Linlithgow wrote to Churchill at the end of August that the rebellion was ‘by far th ...

mainly, to British records). The rationale was clear: Quit India was to be described as a Hindu movement, and nothing should be ...

It was in part a narrative, in part reflections on his own life and his ‘discovery of India’ as one who had approached India, wi ...

Moreover, the British government had set priorities according to the needs of the war effort. According to these, armed forces a ...

with them again. The war in Europe having ended with the German surrender on May 7, other matters could now reappear on the agen ...

its Muslim support base, it was taken as self-evident that the League did not have much of a support base itself. The last testi ...

major achievement had been to convince Churchill of the need for such an initiative; at any rate, in July 1945, the landslide La ...

This was a telling statement. In 1940, members of the Congress were told they had to choose between Hindu Mahasabha membership a ...

existing provinces and states were not congruent with nationalities. But these intellectual distinctions made far more sense to ...

TAKING COMMAND? From August 15, 1942 to November 11, 1945, Nehru’s paper, the National Herald, had not been published – as Nehru ...

now believed, British rule could not survive. It was decided that the INA should be made an example of, the government holding p ...

difficult to disaggregate the various motivations for popular unrest even now; at the time, it was particularly difficult. What ...

ENDGAME: CLUMSY NEGOTIATIONS, POPULAR VIOLENCE The tone for the Congress’s election campaign in 1945–6 had been set by Nehru’s s ...

Nehru, however, was far from content with a plan that set out the pattern of a post-independence India in this awkward way. Give ...

‘defence groups’ and militia in anticipation of violence on August 16, and because violence had been anticipated from Muslims, t ...