Category: Message
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26 January 1950: A Historic Day
Jawaharlal Nehru’s message to the nation. New Delhi, 25 January 1950 Events crowd in upon us and because of their quick succession we are apt to miss their significance. Some of us give messages on every occasion exhorting people to great endeavour and even these messages become stale through repetition. Yet undoubtedly 26 January 1950…
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India Belongs to its Citizens
Message to Jamiat-ul-Ulema-i-Hind Conference, 17 April 1949. I am convinced that the measure of India’s progress will be the measure of our giving full effect to what has been called a secular State. That, of course, does not mean a people lacking morals or religion. It means that while religion is completely free, the State,…
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Science and Planning
Jawaharlal sent this message on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the Indian Science Congress held at Calcutta on 3-9 January 1938. Most of us unhappily are too much engrossed in the business of politics to pay much attention to the finer and more important aspects of life. That is natural perhaps in a nation…
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On the Understanding of History
This is Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘Foreword’ to the book ‘Samrajyavad Kya Hai aur Kaise Phaila’ by Mukundolal Srivastava, published in 1933. The foreword was written on 8 October 1933. Originally, the foreword was written in Hindi. When my friend and colleague, Acharya Narendra Deva of Kashi Vidyapeeth, asked me to write a foreword to this book,…