Impact of Indian Culture on Nehru

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru loved India and her people and laid the foundation of modem India by fusion of Indian culture and Western technology. In this endeavour he continued throughout his political career to educate the Indian masses in the values of democracy and those of India’s rich cultural heritage. This epic endeavour is manifest in his superb statesmanship as in his writings. Several assessments of Nehru’s writings have been made till date but all such assessments concentrate either on his political insight or his literary achievements or on his social and philosophical involvements. There is hardly any evaluation available to us of the influence of India Culture on the growth of his mindand art which shaped his writings. All the writings of Nehru viz.. Historical Prose, the Autobiographical Prose. Letters. Occasional Writings and Speeches have the under-current of his desire that "… there is a special heritage for the people of India …it is the thought of this particular heritage and its application to the present that has long filled my mind. and it is about this that I should like to write. …" That Indian Culture with its manifold aspects had tremendous impact on the writings of Jawaharlal Nehru has been focussed in this new interpretation of Nehru’s writings presented for the first time.