Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of Independent India, and its longest-serving till date, being in office for more than 16 years. Nehru was a barrister by profession, and played a key role in India’s freedom movement. He is often called the architect of modern India, laying the foundations of a free, independent and modern India. Nehru is also celebrated for his charisma, and huge crowds used to turn up to hear him speak.
Born into a privileged, educated family, he was sent to England at age 15 to study. He returned with democratic and liberal values. Nehru was a socialist at heart, and his policies reflected that. Nehru promoted a pluralistic multi-party democracy in India. He implemented moderate socialist economic reforms and committed India to a policy of industrialisation. In foreign affairs, he played a leading role in establishing the Non-Aligned Movement. Under Nehru’s leadership, the Congress emerged as a catch-all party, dominating national and state-level politics and winning elections in 1951, 1957 and 1962.
Some of the highlights of his tenure as prime minister included the India-Pakistan war of 1947-48, the India-China war of 1962, the reorganisation of states along linguistic lines, the Five-Year plans setting up of IITs, IIMS, ISRO, DRDO, among others. Nehru died while in office, serving as the PM for the fourth time.
It’s a point of view. And we should be tolerant to that view.
A generation- educated in a period of long-standing, virtually unopposed one-sided propaganda backed by the people who came to power after their patrons left the country – would not understand following sentence:
“Being a nascent organisation and its membership composed primarily of middle-class Hindus, RSS never had the financial wherewithal to combat the narrative set against them.”
Certainly they would sympathetically write and read the thesis on evolution of thought process( from pro British to support of oppressive rulers in world war to supporting pure religious movement like Khilafat to promote national unity to accept partition) of a side.
In the same breath, I agree with that because we grow.
Biased understanding stops intellectual development.
Rss has done more Hindusim than some.of the commenter’s Iike Akash and Shash and others
Please also comment on Gowalkar’s ‘A bunch of thoughts’
Wishful thinking that RSS is still relevant, no less outside India. Most of Indians want nothing to do with RSS, unlike chameleon who changes it’s colour from natural to saffron. Definitely not the so called journalists who sold their conscience to regime.
RSS taking credit for yoga and vegeterianism looks too desperate for validation. Morover typical indian diet is not vegeterian.
RSS economics continues to damage India just like socialism.