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Nehru: India's last English PM
http://www.hvk.org/articles/1197/0041.html
D P Sinha, The Observer
November 12, 1997
In a passing moment of emotional weakness, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first
Prime Minister of Independent India, shared a deep secret with the then
American diplomat John Galbraith, who said: "It did not especially surprise
me, when once in a relaxed' moment he (Nehru) said - well, you know I am
the last Englishman to rule in India".
To believe this is difficult. Is it possible that India's first Prime
Minister, a man who defiantly challenged the British rule, belligerently
criticised its policies and went to jail again and again, could claim to be
an Englishmen? And that, too, with an unmistakable stamp of pride. An
irony indeed!
The developmental patterns of any person and what direction these patterns
will unfold are pretty much determined during a person's childhood and
early youth. Take the example of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, former Prime Minister
of Pakistan. Bhutto's anti-Hindu psychology first evolved in his
adolescence. At 17, he wrote to Muhammed Ali Jinnah: "Muslims should
realise that the Hindus can never and will never unite with us, they are
the deadliest enemies of our Koran and Prophet..."
Young Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to his father from England: "Indians were
bound to have self-government but ... not before a few aeons of geological
time! This may mean anything between a few million years and wholly
incomprehensive period. The chief difficulty was the want of education and
some million generations will be required to educate them (Indians) up to
the colonial standard".
This letter written at the age of 21 clearly establishes the fact that
young Jawaharlal was deeply aware of the 'supremacy' of the British, and,
all his life, suffered from pangs of inferiority in relation to the white
rulers.
From: sri
Nehru: India's last English PM
http://www.hvk.org/articles/1197/0041.html
D P Sinha, The Observer
November 12, 1997
In a passing moment of emotional weakness, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first
Prime Minister of Independent India, shared a deep secret with the then
American diplomat John Galbraith, who said: "It did not especially surprise
me, when once in a relaxed' moment he (Nehru) said - well, you know I am
the last Englishman to rule in India".
To believe this is difficult. Is it possible that India's first Prime
Minister, a man who defiantly challenged the British rule, belligerently
criticised its policies and went to jail again and again, could claim to be
an Englishmen? And that, too, with an unmistakable stamp of pride. An
irony indeed!
The developmental patterns of any person and what direction these patterns
will unfold are pretty much determined during a person's childhood and
early youth. Take the example of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, former Prime Minister
of Pakistan. Bhutto's anti-Hindu psychology first evolved in his
adolescence. At 17, he wrote to Muhammed Ali Jinnah: "Muslims should
realise that the Hindus can never and will never unite with us, they are
the deadliest enemies of our Koran and Prophet..."
Young Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to his father from England: "Indians were
bound to have self-government but ... not before a few aeons of geological
time! This may mean anything between a few million years and wholly
incomprehensive period. The chief difficulty was the want of education and
some million generations will be required to educate them (Indians) up to
the colonial standard".
This letter written at the age of 21 clearly establishes the fact that
young Jawaharlal was deeply aware of the 'supremacy' of the British, and,
all his life, suffered from pangs of inferiority in relation to the white
rulers.
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