In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.

During this period, Nehru also studied politics, economics, history and literature desultorily.

Nehru also spoke out against the censorship acts passed by the British government in India.

Nehru was also given the responsibility of planning the economy of a future India.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill dispatched Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the war Cabinet who was known to be politically close to Nehru and also knew Jinnah, with proposals for a settlement of the constitutional problem.

While encouraging the construction of large dams ( which Nehru called the " new temples of India "), irrigation works and the generation of hydroelectricity, Nehru also launched India's programme to harness nuclear energy.

Nehru also outlined a commitment in his five-year plans to guarantee free and compulsory primary education to all of India's children.

Nehru also launched initiatives such as the provision of free milk and meals to children in order to fight malnutrition.

Nehru also championed secularism and religious harmony, increasing the representation of minorities in government.

Nehru also maintained good relations with the British Empire.

Nehru also called Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, a nuclear physicist, who was entrusted with complete authority over all nuclear related affairs and programs and answered only to Nehru himself.

Nehru also told Bhabha, later it was told by Bhabha to Raja Rammanna that,

Gandhi had not only moderated the views of younger men like Subhas Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru, who sought a demand for immediate independence, but also reduced his own call to a one year wait, instead of two.

His father, Feroze, was one of the younger members of the Indian National Congress party, and had befriended the young Indira, and also her mother Kamala Nehru, while working on party affairs at Allahabad.

This had also been promised to the Sikh leader Master Tara Singh by Nehru in return for Sikh political support during the negotiations for Indian Independence.

They also allege that Zhou purposefully told Nehru that there were no border issues with India.

Further, this fact is confirmed and reiterated from the correspondence of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir dated October 26, 1947 with Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of India which states that the state of Jammu and Kashmir has a common boundary with the “ Soviet Republic ”, and the said statement also determines the fact that inter alia Gilgit and Kanjut ( which includes the Raskam, Hunza valley and Taghdumbash ) are integral parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had also made a similar statement that " Jammu and Kashmir's Northern

These statements of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir as well as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru also have a bearing on the territorial extent of Kanjut as well as the rest of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir at the time of her accession “ in its entirety to the new Dominion of India ” on October 26 and Section ( 4 ) of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir which pertains to the territorial extent of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir also unequivocally states that, “ The territory of the State shall comprise all the territories which on the fifteenth day of August, 1947, were under the sovereignty or suzerainty of the Ruler of the State ".

Nehru, who had also been the Minister for External Affairs during his 16 years as PM, held that K. R. Narayanan was " the best diplomat of the country.

He also appointed Indira Gandhi, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru and former Congress President, as the Minister of Information and Broadcasting.

Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action .” Nehru asked, “ How does one start ?” to which Krishnamurti replied, “ Begin where you are.

Discouraged, he abandoned acting and returned to India, where he worked as an editor and journalist until the early 1980s, when Richard Attenborough asked Seth to play Jawaharlal Nehru in Gandhi ( 1982 ).

In 1955 Goel asked one of his friends, who was supportive of Nehru and who had published in many international and national journals, to write an article critical of Nehru's policies.

There he asked Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi for help.

Transfer of Power, 8 Aug 1947 meeting ) Nehru opposed him tooth and nail and was overruled by Mountbatten. In Feb 48, he was asked to lead Defense Staff College, Wellington. In 1950, he predicted problems for India after conquest of Tibet by China and sparred with visiting Foreign secretary of India at Wellington .( Ref.

There is a folk legend, that this statue was raised because Nikita Khrushchev upon visiting India, told Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that there was a statue of Nikitin in Russia when in fact there was not ( Nehru had asked if the Russians had honored the first Russian to visit India ).

Azad met Nehru on 27 February 1931 and asked for help in stopping the execution of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev.

Nanda, these scriptures were Nehru's " first introduction to the religious and cultural heritage of .... provided Nehru the initial impulse for long intellectual quest which culminated ... in the Discovery of India.

All these aims formed the core of the " Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy " resolution drafted by Nehru in 1929-31 and were ratified by the All India Congress Committee under Gandhi's leadership.

Nehru observed that these attitudes and religious taboos were preventing India from going forward and adapting to modern conditions: “ No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded .” Therefore, he concurred, that religions and all that went with them must be severely limited before they ruined the country and its people.

Adhering to his stated position, Nehru believed that China did not have a legitimate claim over either of these territories, and thus was not ready to concede them.

Nehru went so far as to say: " If these principles were recognized in the mutual relations of all countries, then indeed there would hardly be any conflict and certainly no war.

Commenting on the 1954 enunciation of them, Peter Lyon, a UK academic specializing in international relations, wrote: " Though neutralists in general, and at that time Mr Nehru in particular, seemed to regard these principles as being a special contribution to world politics, they were not at all original, were repetitious, and really boiled down to the edict that a state's independence should not be infringed.

The British and the Indian Press vehemently criticized these two different schemes and created a confusion about the authorship of the word " Pakistan " to such an extent that even Jawahur Lal Nehru had to write:

During these years, Menon became a passionate proponent of India's freedom, working as a journalist and as secretary of the India League from 1929 to 1947, and a close friend of fellow Indian nationalist leader and future Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as such political and intellectual figures as Bertrand Russell, J. B. S.

Premier Zhou Enlai of the People's Republic of China proposed the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in 1953 during negotiations with India over Tibet and these were written into the Agreement Between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of India on Trade and Intercourse Between the Tibet Region of China and India signed in 1954 by Zhou and Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.

In recognition of these contributions, Kedarnath Agarwal was awarded the Soviet Land Nehru Prize in 1973.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

Nehru advocated Democratic Socialism / Fabian Socialism and a strong public sector as the means by which economic development could be pursued by poorer nations.

During the mid-1930s, Nehru was much concerned with developments in Europe, which seemed to be drifting toward another world war.

Thus, Nehru came to be seen as a champion of freedom and democracy all over the world.

In January 1947, Nehru said that independent India would not accept the Divine Right of Kings, and in May 1947, he declared that any princely state which refused to join the Constituent Assembly would be treated as an enemy state.

During the drafting of the Indian constitution, many Indian leaders ( except Nehru ) of that time were in favour of allowing each Princely state or Covenanting State to be independent as a federal state along the lines suggested originally by the Government of India act ( 1935 ).

Nehru visit to Europe in 1936 proved to be the watershed in his political and economic thinking.

Nehru hurried back from a visit to China, announcing that, in a conflict between democracy and Fascism, “ our sympathies must inevitably be on the side of democracy ......

“ The same old game is played again ,” Nehru wrote bitterly to Gandhi, “ the background is the same, the various epithets are the same and the actors are the same and the results must be the same .”

In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

Nehru declared the new republic to be a " Union of States ".

This was the result of the annexation of Goa in 1961 by India, when Nehru promised the people that their laws would be left intact.

The role of Nehru, both as Indian Prime Minister and a leader of the Non Aligned Movement was significant ; he tried to be even-handed between the two sides, while denouncing Eden and co-sponsors of the aggression vigorously.

Nehru began to be frequently embarrassed by her ruthlessness and disregard for parliamentary tradition, and was " hurt " by what he saw as an assertiveness with no purpose other than to stake out an identity independent of her father.

For example, " FOB JNPT " means that the exporter delivers the goods to the Jawahar lal Nehru Port, India, and pays for the cargo to be loaded and secured on the ship.

In 1954, Prime Minister Nehru wrote a memo calling for India's borders to be clearly defined and demarcated ; in line with previous Indian philosophy, Indian maps showed a border that, in some places, lay north of the McMahon Line.

CIA documents created at the time revealed that Nehru had ignored Burmese premier Ba Swe when he warned Nehru to be cautious when dealing with Zhou.

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India praised the Soviets for " a great victory of man over the forces of nature " and urged that it be " considered as a victory for peace.