Tag: History
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Jawaharlal Nehru: A Guiding Force in Our Past, Present, and Future
Nehru’s fantastic effort to raise India from what Tagore called the ‘mud and filth’ left behind by the British has now been replaced with the Indian people being pushed back into that same ‘mud and filth’ of ignorance, obscurantism, dis-empowerment, unfreedom and above all communal hatred. The following text is Aditya Mukherjee’s presidential address at…
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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,…