Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speeches: After Independence–1953 (In 2 Volumes)

Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian statesman who was the first and longest serving Prime Minister of India, from 1947 until 1964. He was also a great internationalist, and one of the founders of the non-aligned movement. Nehru was a renowned orator. The speeches selected are important collection help to answer these questions in Nehru’s own words and see through them the development of Nehru’s vision for free India and the actual process of transforming the blueprint into reality. These speeches from Nehru’s prime ministerial years are an early articulation of government policies and its position vis-a-vis infrastructural development, the roles of government and business, the differing requirements of communities and languages and the inseparability of science and ethics. Trust with destiny was a speech made by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India. The speech was made to the Indian constituent assembly, on the eve of India’s independence, towards midnight on 14 August 1947. It focuses on the aspects that transcend India’s history.