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Remembering Nehru
With Gandhi and Sardar Patel, Nehru formed the famous
triumvirate which shaped the Indian nation-in-the-making during the freedom
struggle and in its formative years immediately after independence. After
Gandhi, he was the most popular Congress leader in India. His outstanding leadership
during the freedom struggle and in the early years after independence was
central to the consolidation of the new state and to the legitimacy of the
Congress, which he led in the subsequent years till his death. As the prime
minister between 1947 and 1964, no other Indian leader other than her daughter
Indira has come close to his political longevity at the top. Because of his
long reign, several of the seemingly bewildering contradictions of today’s
India can also be traced to Nehru.
It has been 125 years since Jawaharlal Nehru was born and 50
years since he died. He was the prime architect of modern India and her system
of parliamentary democracy. In his understanding, parliamentary democracy was
necessary for keeping India united as a nation. Given its diversity and
differences, only a democratic structure which gives freedom to various
cultural, political and socio-economic tendencies to express themselves could
hold India together. He said, “This is too large a country, with too many legitimate
diversities, to permit any so-called ‘strong man’ to trample over people and
their ideas.”
At the same time, he was also a realist who recognized that
parliamentary democracy was not something which could be consolidated
overnight. It had to evolve and grow. It had to be absorbed by the people and
demanded a great deal of investment in their political education. Mobilizing
them and involving them in the task of nation-building was an arduous task when
more than 70 percent of the people were illiterate.
Greatly admired within India during his lifetime, Nehru
witnessed a precipitous fall in his reputation after his death. This
accelerated in the 1980s and 1990s, when his ideas on the economy, on foreign
affairs, and on social harmony all came under sharp attack. There was a
vigorous campaign to free entrepreneurs from all forms of state control and
regulation; a major, countrywide movement to redefine Indian secularism by
making it more “Hindu” in theory and practice; and a clamour from the media and
business elite to abandon India’s non-alignment in favour of an ever closer
relationship with the United States.
India has experimented now with 20 years of anti-Nehruvian
policies in economics, social affairs, and foreign policy. These radical shifts
have shown mixed results. Creative capitalism is being increasingly
subordinated to crony capitalism; aggressive Hindutva has led to horrific riots
and the loss of many lives; and the United States has not shown itself to be as
willing to accommodate India’s interests as our votaries of a special
relationship had hoped.
Every country, and every generation
needs icons and role models for mew generations. The west is very good at
producing or discovering one periodically. We too have tried to emulate that
but with sporadic and limited success. Nehru remains an obvious option. There
is something remarkably enduring about his works and personality. Pity though
that we have in a well meaning effort put him up on pedestals but only as a
stone statute or congratulated ourselves after merely naming roads and
buildings after him. But the real Nehru, particularly his scientific temper,
has gradually disappeared from our political culture. In times of seemingly low
ideology content and growing frustration with the system, yet great new
opportunities opening up globally, a rediscovery of Jawaharlal Nehru could
provide the meaning we are looking for.
Themes
1.
Nehru as Maker of
Modern India.
2.
Nehru the Social
Democrat
3.
Nehru and Indian
Economy
4.
Nehru’s Political
Thought/Philosophy
5.
Nehru and the Congress
6.
Nehru’s Foreign Policy
7.
Nehru and the Merger
of the Princely States
8.
Nehru and the
Reorganization of the States of 1956
9.
Nehru and the Issue of
National Language
10.
Nehru and Gandhi
11.
Nehru and Sardar Patel
12.
Nehru and Rajendra
Prasad
13.
Nehru and Ambedkar
14.
Nehru and Maulana Azad
15.
Nehru and Jinnah
16.
Nehru and Operation
Polo (annexation of Hyderabad)
17.
Nehru and Indian
Secularism
18.
Nehru and Mounbatten
19.
Nehru and the Hindu
Code Bill
20.
Nehru and the Kashmir
Crisis
21.
Nehru and Sheikh
Abdullah
22.
Nehru and the Minorities
23.
Nehru and China
24.
Nehru and the Tibetan
Dilemma
25.
Nehru and His
‘Discovery of India’
26.
Nehruvian legacy
27.
Nehru and the NAM
28.
Nehru and the Issue of
Human Rights
29.
Nehru and the gender
question
30.
Nehru and the Masses
31.
Nehru and the children
32.
Nehru and
Industrialization
33.
Nehru and the
Scientific Temper
34.
Nehru and Partition of
India
35.
Nehru and Gandhi’s
Death
36.
Nehru and Affirmative
Action in India
37.
Nehru in Films
38.
Nehru in Literature
39.
Nehru’s Writings
40.
Nehru and Communism
41.
Nehru and the West
42.
Nehru and Apartheid
43.
Nehru and the Blacks
44.
Nehru and the Indian
Constitution
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