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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru
His personal emblem, a freshly plucked rose, in the button hole of his tunic, a pensive Jawharlal Nehru poses for a moment in the garden of Viceroy’s House

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge.... At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance...." Jawaharlal Nehru @ Indian Constituent Assembly, New Delhi, August 14, 1947
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 Dinesh
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Nehru was a torn and anguished man, caught between his deep love for Gandhi and his new admiration and friendship for the Mountbattens. Gandhi spoke to his heart, Mountbatten to his mind. Instinctively, Nehru detested partition; yet his rationalist spirit told him it was the only answer. Since reaching his own conclusion that there was no other choice, Mountbatten and his wife had been employing all the charm and persuasiveness of Operation Seduction to bring Nehru to their viewpoint. One argument was vital. With Jinnah gone, Hindu India could have the strong central government that Nehru would need if he was going to build the socialist state of his dreams. Ultimately, he too stood out against the man he had followed so long ~ 124

Shortly after seven O'clock on that evening of June, 3 1947, in the New Delhi studio of All India Radio, the four key leades formally announced their agreement to divide the subcontinent into two separate sovereign nations.

As befitting his office, Mountbatten spoke first. His words were confident, his speech brief, his tones understated. Nehru followed, speaking in Hindi. Sadness grasped the Indian leader’s face as he sold his listeners that “the great destiny of India” was taking shape, “with travail and suffering.” Baring his own emotions, he urged acceptance of the plan that had caused him such deep personal anguish, by concluding that “it is with no job in my heart that I commend these proposals to you” ~ Page 168

FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT
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. . .. the Harrow-educated secularist Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru put Ashoka on a par with Jesus Christ as a source of inspiration in his non-violent struggle against the British rulers of India. Two decades later, when Nehru Became a more modern father father of the nation as independent India’s first Prime Minister, he selected as the symbols of the New India two images directly linked to Emperor Ashoka: the twenty-four-spoked wheel known as the ‘Chakra,’ pr ‘wheel of Law’ which was set as the centre of the Indian tricolour; and, for its national emblem, the Ashokan capital excavated at Saranath in 1904-5 showing four lions standing guard over four chakras, representing ‘lion’s roar of the Buddha’ spreading to the cardinal directions.~ Page 355

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ASHOKA ~ THE SEARCH FOR INDIA'S LOST EMPEROR
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 Dinesh
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The First Prime minister of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru, states in his will that he did not believe in religious ceremonies and wanted none around his cremation. But then this thorough-going unbeliever, who had ensued that the constitution of modern India would be resolutely secular, went on:

The Gang, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her racial memories, her hopes and fears, her victories and her defeats. . . the Ganga has been to me a symbol and a memory of the past of India, running into the present and flowing on to the great ocean of the future. . .And as my last homage to India’s cultural inheritance, I am making this request that a handful of my ashes be thrown into the Ganga at Allahabad, to be carried into the great ocean that washes India’s shore. ~ Page 49
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LIVING WITH THE GODS
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