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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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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,…
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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.…
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Jawaharlal will be my successor…
Do not please go away with the idea that there is a rift in the Congress. The working committee has worked like members of a happy family. Somebody suggested that Pandit Jawaharlal and I were estranged. It will require much more than the differences of opinion to estrange us.
We have had differences from the moment we became co-workers, and yet I have said for some years and say now that not Rajaji but Jawaharlal will be my successor.
He says he does not understand my language, and that he speaks a language foreign to me. This may or may not be true. But language is no bar to a union of hearts. And I know this that when I am gone, he will speak my language.
Mahatma Gandhi
AICC Meet, Wardha, 1942