Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

Personal Political General

1938 Nehru appointed Subhas Bose elected September: Munich

chairman of the Congress president. Pact effectively gives

National Planning Appoints a National Czechoslovakia to Hitler

Committee. Planning Committee

Nehru works as

editorial writer and

foreign correspondent

for his own paper, the

National Herald

1939 August–September: January: Bose re-elected March: fall of the

Nehru’s first visit to with left’s support Spanish Republic.

China; meets Chiang against opposition from August 23: Nazi–Soviet

Kai-Shek (Jiang Jieshi) Gandhi and the Pact.

and his wife. Congress right. September 3: outbreak

September: Nehru March–April: ‘Tripuri of Second World War:

returns from China on crisis’: Gandhi engineers Britain and France

outbreak of war to Bose’s isolation. Nehru declare war on Germany

discuss Congress hedges his bets. Bose following German

response resigns and forms the invasion of Poland

Forward bloc.

October 29–30:

resignation of Congress

ministries in protest

against Viceroy’s

declaration of war on

India’s behalf without

consulting Indian

political representatives

1940 October 31, 1940: ‘Individual satyagraha’ ‘Battle of Britain’.

Nehru arrested. campaign begun by May 10: coalition

November 1940– Gandhi to oppose government under

December 1941: censorship regulations. Winston Churchill takes

Nehru in jail 23 March: Muslim over in Britain

League’s ‘Lahore

Resolution’,

retrospectively called the

‘Pakistan Resolution’.

August: Viceroy’s

‘August offer’

1941 April 1941: Subhas June 22, 1941:

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