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The current volume of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru covers the period from 1 February to 31 May 1955. … This is a period marked by some seminal developments within India as well as within the world community. At the Avadi session of the Indian National Congress….Nehru (had) set in motion a novel programme… with the objective of creating… a "socialistic pattern of society"… (One of the) concrete initiatives (taken up) at this ...
The present volume, which draws upon the period 1 June to 31 August 1955 … is richer in foreign policy than in internal developments. Goa is the dominant single problem at home… where the popular movement is controlled not by the Congress but by radical groups in the Socialist Party and the Jana Sangh… He confronts the leftist parties and questions their nationalist bona fides, makes an interesting distinction between socialism to which the Congress Party ...
The present volume covers the period from 18 November 1955 to 31 January 1956. The most important event during this period is the visit of the Soviet leaders to India….. the first visit of the Soviet leaders…. to a non-socialist developing country… Of particular interest is the Prime Minister’s anxiety to make the Soviet leadership understand his Government’s problems with the Communist Party of India. The reaction of the Soviet leadership is tactful ...
Nehru had set the best traditions of engagement with the people and their leaders through dialogue and discussions… ranging from stability in Kashmir…to Second Five Year Plan…to the preservation of wildlife…to eschew casteism and communalism…(On) the issue of banning of the book…he could not make sense of violence breaking out, people making inflammatory speeches, and newspapers publishing articles to heighten religious passions…he pleaded for ...
It is an important collection of speeches and correspondence for understanding the evolution of Indian democracy, the coverage of the second general election, the foregrounding of governance issues at the Centre and the States, and the articulation of India’s foreign policy. Three themes are salient in the coverage of the elections; one, the scale and depth of campaigning, and the wide variety of issues raised, national and international, before the electorate; ...