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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1949
Two Years of Independence I had flown the tri-colour for the first time from these ramparts two years ago. Two years have gone by in our lives and two years have been added to the thousands of years of India’s history. Two years are not very long in many thousands of years of history. But…
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Need for All to Work Together
Statement to the press. New Delhi, 19 April 1949. On the eve of my departure [1] undertaking a long journey and going out of the country, I should like to say a few words to the refugees or the displaced persons in India. Their lot has been a hard one and no problem has given…
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Shun the Narrow Outlook
Jawaharlal Nehru’s address to Bihar Political Conference, Muzaffarpur, 2 April 1949. The people of India should realize their responsibilities in the new set up of independent India and never indulge in narrow outlook. The R.S.S., particularly took up from narrow communalism its slogans and principles which always had been responsible for the downfall of India.…
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The Government and the People
Jawaharlal Nehru’s address to Congressmen, Puri, Orissa, 12 March 1949. Orissa is poor as it had been neglected in the past. But the province has great resources and it is up to the people of Orissa to work those resources and make the province strong and prosperous by constructive and productive work in all directions.…
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Time for Constructive Work
Jawaharlal Nehru’s address to a gathering at Konarak, Orissa, 10 March 1949. The people of Orissa should strive hard to increase the productive wealth of the province and thereby contribute to India’s prosperity and strength. A country’s wealth is not judged by the gold and silver it has, but by its natural resources and by…
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World Health and the WHO
Inaugural speech of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at the first meeting of the Regional Committee of the World Health Organization for South-East Asia, New Delhi, October 4, 1948. I join the Health Minister in offering you, Delegates, a very warm welcome on behalf of our Government. I should just like to add a few words to that…
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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