Pre-Independence

Not many blunders are listed under Nehru’s ‘Pre-independence Blunders’
below, compared to his ‘Post-independence Blunders’ later, because in the
former period Nehru was not fully in-charge. There was Mahatma Gandhi
on top, and there were many other leaders of stature, to keep him in check.
Despite that, whenever Nehru held an official position bestowing him with
some discretion, and an opportunity presented itself,…

NEHRU’S UNDEMOCRATIC ELEVATION AS THE FIRST PM

RACE FOR INDIA’S FIRST PM : SARDAR PATEL AS THE CLEAR CHOICE Post 1945, with the increasing hopes of the imminence of India’s independence, all patriots looked forward to having a strong, assertive, competent, decisive, no-nonsense person as India’s first prime minister, who would bring back the lost glory of India,...

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CLUELESS ON THE ROOTS OF PARTITION & PAKISTAN

The lack of support by Nehru (Blunder#3,4) and the Congress to the British war efforts in WW-II made the British anti-Hindus and anti-Congress, and made them favourably disposed towards the Muslims and the AIML. Wrote VP Menon in ‘The Transfer of Power in India’: “Moreover, the Congress opposition to the war...

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“DEMOCRACY, THANKS TO NEHRU?”—NOT TRUE

Not seldom are those who tend to be critical of Nehru reminded it is thanks to Nehru India is a democracy, whose fruits all Indians are enjoying —including criticising him. Does the contention hold? Elections were conducted in India during the British times too. Congress had not only won the 1937-elections...

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PRE-INDEPENDENCE DYNASTY PROMOTION

Jawaharlal Nehru’s dynastic tendencies, inherited from his father Motilal, were apparent in the 1930s itself, much before he became the prime minister. After the 1937 elections when the ministry was being formed in UP, Govind Ballabh Pant (who became the Chief Minister) and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai proposed to Nehru inclusion of...

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WHAT REALLY LED TO INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE?

Often, when one points out the blunders of Nehru, the same are sought to be white-washed by highlighting that “after all, Nehru (along with Gandhi and other Gandhians) won for us our freedom”! So, was it Gandhi-Nehru- Congress that made the British ‘Quit India’? WAS FREEDOM THANKS TO GANDHI-NEHRU & CONGRESS?...

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WANTING MAHARAJA TO LICK HIS BOOTS

Most unwisely, while Nehru had treated Maharaja Hari Singh ignominiously, he gave all his support to Sheikh Abdullah, little realising that but for the Maharaja’s signature on the Instrument of Accession, J&K could not be a part of India. When Abdullah launched the ‘abusive and mischievous’ Kashmir agitation against the Maharajah...

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GROSS ILL-TREATMENT OF INA

The Indian National Army (INA) or the Azad Hind Fauj was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists under the leadership of Netaji Subhas Bose in Southeast Asia during World War II to secure Indian independence. “Jai Hind” was coined by Netaji and later adopted by the Government of India...

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ASSAM’S SECURITY COMPROMISED

With the annexation of Assam in 1826, the British brought in the peasantry from the over-populated East-Bengal for tea plantation and other purposes. The Muslim League, in order to dominate the predominantly non- Muslim Assam and the Northeast, and make it yet another Muslim-majority region, strategized back in 1906 in...

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NWFP BLUNDER 1946

Congress had won the elections in NWFP in 1946, and Dr Khan Sahib (Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan), brother of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, was heading the ministry. NWFP was another province the Muslim League was targeting along with Bengal, Assam, Punjab, and Sind. Although the provincial government of NWFP was in...

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