Category: Speech
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Jaipal Singh’s assertion on Nehru’s Objectives Resolution
Shri Jaipal Singh, popularly known as Jaipal Singh Munda, was among the honorable members of the Constituent Assembly. He was educated at St. Paul’s School (Ranchi) and St. John’s College (Oxford). He was an ace hockey player who earned India her first-ever Olympic gold medal at Amsterdam Olympics. In 1946, Singh was elected to the…
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The Progress of Science
Nehru’s address to the National Academy of Sciences at their annual meeting held at Allahabad on March 05, 1938. Friends, You are men of learning and many of you have distinguished records in the realm of science. Yet you have honoured me, an outsider, with an inivitation to participate in this annual gathering of yours…
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Nehru’s Presidential Address at the Lucknow Congress, 1936
Sixteen years ago we took a new and long step converting this Congress from an ineffective body, feebly functioning amongst the upper classes, into a powerful democratic organisation with its roots in the Indian soil and the vast masses who live on it. A handful of our old friends, representing an age and a class…
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Nehru’s Presidential Address at the Lahore Congress, 1929
Comrades, For four and forty years, this National Congress has laboured for the freedom of India. During this period, it has somewhat slowly, but surely, awakened national consciousness from its long stupor and built up the national movement. If, today we are gathered here at a crisis of our destiny, conscious of our strength as…
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Nehru unfurls National Flag at the Lahore Congress, 1929
Jawaharlal Nehru was the President of the Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress, 1929. After hoisting the National Flag Nehru addressed the participants on 29 December 1929 in Lahore: I have just unfurled the national flag of Hindustan. What is the meaning of this flag? It is one of the symbols of India’s freedom.…