Pakistan 1, 53, 89, 114, 119, 121–5,
130–3, 135–9; and Cold War
politics 200, 216, 218–19, 243;
and CPI 123–5, 154; and division
of finances 173; and Hyderabad
156, 176–7; implications of
creation of for defining Indian
state 43–4, 149, 207, 247; Indian
harassment of visitors from 167;
and Junagadh 156, 176; and
Kashmir 156, 176–80, 211, 218,
240, 245, 256; ‘Pakistan
Resolution’ 106; and
post-partition violence 169–71,
184; war 258
Palestine 97, 179
Palme, Anne 25
Panch Sheel(‘Five Principles’) 204,
218, 219–20, 236, 253
Pandit, Ranjit 110
Pandit (Nehru), Vijayalakshmi 16,
18, 110, 157, 183, 264
Pant, Govind Ballabh 90, 97, 231
Partition of Bengal (1905) 19;
annulled (1911) 22, 29
Partition of India 1, 6, 89, 102, 106,
129, 133, 135–8, 181, 261; and
Muslims in post-partition India
143, 149, 171–2; population
movements 139, 170–1;
post-Partition violence 140, 167,
169–72, 177
Patel, Vallabhbhai 53, 129, 134, 137,
143, 203; anti-communist and
anti-Muslim activities 171–2;
death 185; ‘duumvirate’ with
Nehru 180–4; after Gandhi’s
murder 174–5; Hindu nationalist
sentiments 143, 148, 170, 184; as
Home Minister 169, 171–3;
integration of the Princely States
with the Indian Union 150, 169,
178; relations with Congress right
wing and Indian capitalists 85, 99,
125, 127, 148; supports Tandon’scandidacy for Congress president
184–5
Patel, Vithalbhai 53, 74
Patil, S.K. 255
Patnaik, Biju 2 54, 255
peasants: and Chinese revolution 197;
economic conditions 20, 60, 69,
263; and Gandhian politics 33,
45–9, 191; and land reforms 189,
227; and Nehru 5, 47–9, 187;
Nehru’s views on culture of
146–7; politics and organisations
31–2, 43, 80, 87–9, 91–2, 124,
129; in Tebhagaand Telengana
movements 154; and violence 131,
134
Permanent Settlement 91–2, 189
Planning Commission 190, 224, 228
plans, planning 1, 80, 151–4, 162,
221, 223–8; Bombay Plan (1944)
205; and centralised state power
130; effects of China conflict on
direction of 242, 248, 250; First
Five-Year Plan 193, 224, 262; and
the Nehruvian project 188–94,
253, 262–3; Second Five-Year
Plan 191, 224; Third Five-Year
Plan 252, 263 see alsoNational
Planning Committee, Planning
Commission
Pondicherry 221
Poona Pact 73
Popular Front 79, 90, 98, 107, 230
praja samities69, 92
Praja Socialist Party (PSP) 187,
196–7, 229, 242, 245–6
Prasad, Rajendra 148, 171, 181, 185
Princely States 29, 43, 71, 73, 95,
105, 137, 150, 156, 178, 181, 187
propaganda 52, 53, 54, 66, 82, 110,
115, 118, 190, 230, 250
Punjab: 1937 elections 88;
cooperative movement in 195;
Jallianwalla Bagh massacre and its
consequences 37–41; and Pakistan296 INDEX