Legacy of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru,the first P.M. of India as flashed on the f.b. on December 10,2010.

Bishwa Nath Singh:


Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's legacy of a democratic, federal, and secular India continues to survive in spite of all odds .Let us hope for the best and one must learn from his/her mistakes and pledge not to repeat in future and take our nation on the right path in right direction for all round development in all fields ranging from agricultural production, health, industrialization defense and all requisites! Let us have a look on it with the background of his life history in brief that is appended below!
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Bishwa Nath Singh :
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India was indeed the chief & main architect of domestic and foreign policies of India between 1947 and 1964. He was born into a wealthy Kashmiri Brahman family of Motilal Nehru, a leading Barri...ster and freedom-fighter (1861 -1931) & Swaroop Ranion (1863-1954) on November 14,1889 at Allahabad in U.P. of our country. Nehru was educated in India and Britain. In England, he attended the independent boy's school, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.At Harrow, he was very popularly called as Joe Nehru.He had married on February 8,1016 a seventeen year old Kamla Kaul and in the first year of their conjugal life,they were blessed with a girl child known as Indira Priyadarshini who had later on become the most outstanding figure of the world as the Prime Minister of India.On February 8, 1916, Nehru married seventeen year old Kamala Kaul. In the first year of the marriage, Kamala gave birth to their only child, Indira Priyadarshini. Nehru possessed a rare combination of intellect, breadth of vision, and personal charisma that attracted support throughout India. Nehru's appreciation for parliamentary democracy coupled with concerns for the poor and underprivileged enabled him to formulate policies that often reflected his socialist leanings.He was an ardent follower of Mahatma Gandhi known as latter’s conscious keeper.The grateful nation elevated him to be the firat Prime Minister of our country from August 15,1947 till he breathed his last on May 27,1964.He had also distinction to serve as Union Minister of External Affairs from August 15,1947 to May 27,1964 and also as Union Finance Minister from October 8,1958 to November 17,1959. Preceded by T.T.Krishnamachari and succeeded by Morar Ji Bhai Desai Both as Prime Minister and as Congress President, Nehru pushed through the Indian Parliament, dominated by members of his own party, a series of legal reforms intended to emancipate Hindu women and bring equality. These reforms included raising the minimum marriageable age from twelve to fifteen, empowering women to divorce their husbands and inherit property, and declaring illegal the ruinous dowry system The threat of escalating violence and the potential for "red revolution" across the country seemed daunting in the face of the country's growing population, unemployment, and economic inequality. Jawaharlal Nehru induced Parliament to pass a number of laws abolishing absentee landlordism and conferring titles to land on the actual cultivators who could document their right to occupancy. Under his direction, the central Planning Commission allocated resources to heavy industries, such as steel plants and hydroelectric projects, and to revitalizing cottage industries. He had expanded scientific research and teaching at universities, institutes of technology, and research centers in our country. Jawaharlal Nehru demonstrated tremendous enthusiasm for India's moral leadership, especially among the newly independent Asian and African nations, in a world polarized by Cold War ideology and threatened by nuclear weapons. His guiding principles were nationalism, anti-colonialism, internationalism, and nonalignment. He attained international prestige during his first decade in office, but after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956--when New Delhi tilted toward Moscow--criticisms grew against his inconsistency in condemning Western but not communist aggression. In dealing with Pakistan, Nehru failed to formulate a consistent policy and was critical of the improving ties between Pakistan and the United States; mutual hostility and suspicion persisted as a result Despite attempts at improving relations with China, based on his much-publicized five principles popularly called Panch –Sheel of territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-interference, equality and co-operation, and peaceful co-existence. The war with China had erupted in 1962. The war was a rude awakening for him as India proved ill-equipped and unprepared to defend its northern borders. At the conclusion of the conflict, the Chinese forces were partially withdrawn and an unofficial demilitarized zone was established, but India's prestige and self-esteem had suffered.Inspite of this set back, he was regarded as one of the most popular Statesman of the world. Physically debilitated and mentally exhausted, Nehru suffered a stroke and died in office in May 27, 1964 at the age of seventy four at New Delhi.On his passing away, it appeared that the entire world had come to halt as every body living far & wide sobbed their eyes and condoled his death and bade him farewell with moist & swollen eyes. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's legacy of a democratic, federal, and secular India continues to survive in spite of all odds .Let us hope for the best and one must learn from his/her mistakes and pledge not to repeat in future and take our nation on the right path in right direction for all round development in all fields ranging from agricultural production, health, industrialization defense and all requisites!

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Girish C. Khosla :
I agree with you. He was a great person


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