Brussels and Moscow 58–61;
Chairman of Allahabad Municipal
Board 53–4; China border dispute
237, 239, 241–3, 247–9; and
Commonwealth membership
164–5, 198–9; as Congress
negotiator during and after the
War 104, 113, 129–30, 133–7;
Congress President 65–6, 83, 176;
death and succession 255–8;
defining non-alignment 154–60;
defining the ‘nation’ and ‘Indian
culture’ 143–7; development
151–4, 223–9; discovering the
peasantry 47–9; early childhood
and education 11, 13–17; early
political opinions 19, 21; in
Europe (1935–6) 76–9; Europe
(1938) 94–7; and father’s death
71–2; foreign policy 198–205,
215–23, 236; in Gandhian politics
37, 39, 41–2, 44, 54–5; after
Gandhi’s murder 174; as Gandhi’s
successor 113, 186, 252; Goa 245;
Harrow and Trinity 17–26;
imprisonments 50–2, 70–1, 74–6,
109–12, 118–20; and INA trials
126, 128; and Kashmir 178–9,
211–12, 232, 255–6; Kerala
231–3; leadership 4–10, 259–62;
leftward move 57; marriage 27–8;
and ‘mass contact’ 87–94; meets
Gandhi 33; nation-building
206–12; on nationalism and
internationalism 145–6; and
‘Nehruvian’ politics 166–7,
264–5; and the Nehruvians
187–93; relations with his
daughter 74–5, 232–3; relations
with the Mountbattens 134–5,
170–1, 183; relationship with
Gandhi 54, 65, 78–9, 83, 113,
174, 181; and secularism 143–5,
169–74; as spokesman for
‘modern’ trends 81–2; as
spokesman for the left 74, 81–4,
86; and Subhas Bose 78–9, 96–7,
100; ‘tryst with destiny’ speech
138
Nehru (Kaul), Kamala 28, 54, 58, 70,
74–8
Nehru (Hutheesing), Krishna Kumari
(‘Betty’) 18
Nehru, Motilal 3, 11–16, 18, 21–3,
25–30, 32; Civil Disobedience,
death of 71; after Jallianwalla
Bagh 36–7, 39–40; and Nehru
Report 61–3; and Non-
Cooperation-Khilafat Movement
40–1, 49–51; and Swaraj Party
52–3; visits USSR 60
Nehru, Nandlal 11, 17
Nehru, Shridhar 17
Nehru, Swarup Rani 11, 13, 16–17,
18, 27–8, 74
Nehru Report (1928) 61–4
Nepal 159, 203, 239, 240, 244
Neruda, Pablo 167–8
New Deal 193
Nkrumah, Kwame 236
Noakhali 131
non-alignment 2, 154–60, 167, 199,
203–4; and Bandung 215,
217–21; Belgrade Conference 236;
and China border dispute 242,
243, 247–50, 253, 260, 262,
264
Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movement
40–50, 52, 54, 57, 69
North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA)
239, 243, 248
north-eastern India 62, 147, 209–11,
237, 238, 243
North-West Frontier Province
(NWFP) 62, 136, 177Official Languages Act (1963) 252
Orientalists, Orientalism 9, 144,
194
Oxford 17, 24, 26, 75, 232INDEX 295