Pre-Independence Archives - Page 2 of 3

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,…

24DecDecember 24, 1945

BRITISH JAILS: NEHRU/TOP-GANDHIANS AS VIPS VS. OTHERS

In sharp contrast to the top Gandhians, who were treated very well in jails, the condition of Indian political prisoners, including revolutionaries, in jails was terrible: their uniforms were not washed for several days; rats and cockroaches roamed their kitchen area; reading and writing materials were not provided to them....

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21AugAugust 21, 1945

KASHMIRI PANDITS VS. KASHMIRI PANDITS

The tormentors of the Kashmiri Pandits (KP s) have been Kashmiri Pandits themselves—Kashmiri-Pandit-Converts like Sheikh Abdullah, or Kashmiri-Pandits like Nehru who created the Kashmir problem in the first place; and then, rather than solving it, made it more complicated, and almost insolvable. Wrote B Krishna in his book ‘Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’: “Nehru’s...

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18AugAugust 18, 1945

NEHRU & NETAJI SUBHAS MYSTERY

Dynacracy, that is, Dynastic Democracy, is unfair, and is against the spirit of the constitution. It discounts merit and prevents competent from rising. The quality of leadership emerging out of a dynastic process can never really be good. Please also check Blunder#99. Yet another major negative of Dynacracy is that...

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01JanJanuary 1, 1945

NEGLECT OF UNIVERSAL EDUCATION

Neglect of education, especially at the primary and the secondary level during the Nehruvian era sealed India’s fate as a prosperous emerging nation and a genuine, enlightened democracy. Among the first things that the countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore did to become prosperous was to focus on education—both...

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26DecDecember 26, 1939

LEG-UP TO JINNAH & THE MUSLIM LEAGUE (AIML)

Resignation of the Congress ministries in 1939 (Blunder#3 above), thanks to Nehru & Co, was welcomed both by Jinnah and the British authorities. Jinnah couldn’t help calling it the ‘Himalayan Blunder ’ of the Congress, and was determined to take full advantage of it. Jinnah and the Muslim League went...

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26DecDecember 26, 1939

SCORING SELF-GOAL—MINISTRY RESIGNATIONS, 1939

GOOD SHOW BY THE CONGRESS IN 1936-37 PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS In the 1936-37 provincial elections in 11 provinces, the Congress won an absolute majority in 5 (UP, Bihar, Madras, CP (Central Provinces) and Orissa), and emerged as the largest party in 4 (Bombay, Bengal, Assam and NWFP). The Congress ministries were formed...

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15DecDecember 15, 1936

NEHRU’S DEFECTIVE WORLD VIEW

Much of Nehru’s defective world view has already been covered and illustrated with examples above. We now take up those aspects that have either not been covered, or have been inadequately covered above. NEHRU’S BLINKERED MARXIST–COMMUNIST WORLD VIEW Marxism and socialism were something Nehru was sold out on since the 1920s. (For...

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01AprApril 1, 1936

SETTING JINNAH ON PATH TO PAKISTAN

Before the 1936-37 provincial elections, the Congress did not expect to get enough seats to form a government on its own in UP. That was because of the other parties in the fray who had strong backing of landlords and influential sections. So as to be able to form a...

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16DecDecember 16, 1935

DEBILITATING BABUDOM & CRIMINAL-JUSTICE SYSTEM

Babudom—the IAS-IPS-IFS-IRS combine, those from the criminal- justice system, and the bureaucracy lower down—is very intimately related to socialism, poor rate of growth, continued poverty, injustice and misery. Nehru did nothing to change the babudom and make it people-oriented, service-oriented and development-oriented—they continued with their feudal class consciousness and arrogant ways,...

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02DecDecember 2, 1935

DISTORTIONS OF HISTORY BY NEHRU HIMSELF

Westernised and anglophile Nehru examined and understood the India’s heritage and historical past through the Western glasses, and his writings carried the same bias and misinterpretation. Here is a sample of simplistic, almost juvenile, comment of Nehru in his ‘The Discovery of India’, driven by an arrogant presumptuousness, and a...

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