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PREFACE
1 Hiren Mukerjee, The Gentle Colossus(Manisha Granthalaya, 1964; new
edition, Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 222–3.INTRODUCTION
1 H.N. Brailsford to Jawaharlal Nehru (JN), March 8, 1936, Jawaharlal
Nehru Papers (JNP), Nehru Memorial Library (NML), volume 10, p. 15.
2 Fenner Brockway to JN, 30 June 1938, JNP, NML, volume 10, p. 131.
3 Figures cited in Mushirul Hasan, ‘Introduction’, The Partition Omnibus
(Oxford University Press, 2002), p. xxxi; Dick Kooiman, Communities
and Electorates(VU University Press, 1995), p. 44.1 THE MAKING OF A COLONIAL INTELLECTUAL
1 In Mughal practice, zamindariis not ownership of land, but the right
to collect its revenues and carry out local administration. The landlord,
in this sense, remains the emperor. Calcutta was a city set up by the
East India Company; the emperor simply recognised and gave a legal
basis to the British control over Calcutta, but notas landowners.
2 Panditis the customary title given to a man of learning, and sometimes
more specifically a teacher of Sanskrit. This should not be confused with
the title Panditji– the jibeing an honorific – that many used for Nehru.
The term panditwas used generically for the Kashmiri Brahmin com-
munity, and as Brahmins were traditionally supposed to be men of
learning, it was possible to conflate the two meanings.
3 Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography(Bodley Head, 1936), p. 8.
4 M.K. Gandhi, An Autobiography, or The Story of My Experiments with
Truth(Penguin, 1982) (first published 1927–9; translated from the
Gujarati by Mahadev Desai), pp. 76–7.
5 JN, An Autobiography, p 15.
6 Motilal Nehru (MN) to JN, November 16 1905, in Ravinder Kumar
and D.N. Panigrahi (eds), Selected Works of Motilal Nehru(SWMN)
(2 volumes, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 1982–4), volume 1,
p. 89.
7 JN, An Autobiography, p. 7.
8 MN to JN, October 20, 1905, from Marseilles, SWMN, volume 1, p. 79.
9 JN to MN, October 22, 1905, from Harrow, in S. Gopal (ed.), Selected
Works of Jawaharlal Nehru(first series, 1972–82) (SWJN), vol. 1, p. 3.
10 JN to MN, December 11, 1905, SWJN, volume 1, p. 6. The infant had