3 JN, Discovery of India, p. 25.
4 JN, Discovery of India, p. 36.
5 JN, Discovery of India, p. 75.
6 JN, Discovery of India, p. 104.
7 JN, Discovery of India, p. 59.
8 JN, Discovery of India, p. 144.
9 JN, Discovery of India, p. 56.
10 JN to Krishna Menon, July 22, 1947, SWJN II, volume 3, p. 344.
11 Alan Campbell-Johnson, Mission with Mountbatten, entry for
Wednesday, April 28, 1948.
12 Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speeches, volume one: September 1946–May 1949
(Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 2nd
edition, November 1958), p. 10.
13 JN, Discovery of India, pp. 30–31.
14 Socialist Party programme, copy in AICC Papers, NML, File 27 (Part
I)/1947, pp. 127–45; quotes from p. 127.
15 P. Thakurdas papers, NML, File 291 Part II: Post-War Economic
Development Committee, pp. 265–6.
16 JN, Discovery of India, p. 398.
17 Speech at the AICC, New Delhi, September 24, 1946. SWJN II, volume
1, p. 6.
18 Speech in Assembly, October 28, 1946, SWJN II, volume 1, p. 533.
19 Speech broadcast from New Delhi, September 7, 1946, Jawaharlal
Nehru’s Speeches, volume one, p. 2. This was his first speech as a
member of the Interim Government.
20 He described non-aligned countries as ‘the proverbial clever calves that
suck two cows’. Michal Kalecki, ‘Observations on Social and Economic
Aspects of “Intermediate Regimes”’ (1964), reprinted in Collected Works
of Michal Kalecki, Volume V: Developing Economies(Clarendon Press,
1993), pp. 6–12; the quote is from p. 10.
21 Speech in Constituent Assembly, January 22, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru’s
Speeches, volume one, p. 22.
22 JN to Vijayalakshmi Pandit, November 14, 1946, SWJN II, volume 1,
p. 539.
23 Nehru to Asaf Ali, Member for Communications, October 11, 1946,
SWJN II, volume 1, pp. 516–18, p. 518.
24 Nehru to Asaf Ali in Washington, December 21, 1946, SWJN II, volume
1, pp. 556–7.
25 Nehru’s note to Asaf Ali and KPS Menon, Ambassadors to the USA
and China respectively, dated January 22, 1947, SWJN II, volume 1,
pp. 575–577.
26 Press statement, January 20, 1947, SWJN II, volume 1, pp. 572–3.
27 JNP, NML, Part III, Sl No. 85, 28/10/40.
28 SWJN, volume 10, p. 87.
29 Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speeches, volume one, p. 35.
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