Our most popular leader after Gandhi during our struggle for freedom ! While the people from Kashmir to Kanya Kumarika, from Punjab to NEFA knew his name and adored him, he was hated by a group of people who were followers of Savarkar and Golwalkar. 1/n
#Nehruvian
#Nehruvian
Why was he hated ? I presume there were inter alia, four main reasons.
1. He was immersed in India's history, understood Indian more than most people and never believed that the Hindus & Muslims by any stretch of imagination could be regarded as two separate nations.
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1. He was immersed in India's history, understood Indian more than most people and never believed that the Hindus & Muslims by any stretch of imagination could be regarded as two separate nations.
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2. He believed India, through its history, had become multicultural & should be preserved & protected as such. From his travels to the nooks & corners of India, he realised that any attempt at achieving homogeneity
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would be maiming India as that would lead to loud assertions of regional identities and sub-nationalism.
3. He was a modern man who believed that blind faith and unfounded superstitious belief and customs, despite their claim to reverence as they have been handed down
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3. He was a modern man who believed that blind faith and unfounded superstitious belief and customs, despite their claim to reverence as they have been handed down
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to us by our ancestors, needed to be discarded. He wanted all that is best in West, viz., the Western Intellectual Tradition, to take root in India. As he said in an interview, his hardest task ahead was to transform a deeply religious nation into a modern one,
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discarding old values in favour of new ones based on the claims of reason, fairness & justice.
4. He was a Fabian socialist. Working under many constrains, his policies aimed at empowerment of a vast population as soon as and as equally as it was possible
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4. He was a Fabian socialist. Working under many constrains, his policies aimed at empowerment of a vast population as soon as and as equally as it was possible
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within the framework of a democracy.
I AM NOT SURPRISED THAT @narendramodi AND HIS GOBERMENT REJECT THE CLAIM THAT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU WAS A FREEDOM FIGHTER AND EXCLUDE HIM FROM THEIR AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV.
I AM NOT SURPRISED THAT @narendramodi AND HIS GOBERMENT REJECT THE CLAIM THAT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU WAS A FREEDOM FIGHTER AND EXCLUDE HIM FROM THEIR AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV.
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