{"product_id":"19810-nehrus-india-select-speeches","title":"Nehru's India - Select Speeches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Mushirul Hasan\u003cbr\u003eTranslator(s)\/Editor: Mushirul Hasan\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2007\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 278\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195687876\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs Nehru’ vision of India relevant today? What are the key building blocks of our nation? Have the institutions and infrastructure set up as part of that vision stood the test of time? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe speeches selected and introduced by Mushirul Hasan in this important collection help to answer these questions in Nehru’s own words. We see through them the development of Nehru’s vision for free India and the actual process of transforming the blueprint into reality. As his ideas for India’s internal development were inextricably linked to its role and position in the world we are also privy to the panning out of India’s foreign relations (especially those with Pakistan) and its emergence as a respected voice in the international arena – much like its position in today’s world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe challenges facing newly independent India-both social and economic-reflected in Nehru’s speeches, also echo many current debates on the space for minorities, communal harmony or issues of poverty, entrenched interests, inflation, and productivity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese speeches from Nehru’s ‘Prime Ministerial years’ are an early articulation of government policies and its position vis-à-vis infrastructural development, the roles of government and business, the differing requirements of communities and languages and the inseparability of science and ethics. They often also reflect the opposition and struggle Nehru faced in the implementation of these policies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile most selections in the collection focus on the building of Nehru’s India, a few have been included to reflect the person behind the politician and administrator. These profiles and reflections showcase an intellectual and philosopher with a remarkable range of interests and erudition as well as a warm colleague and comrade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntellectually stimulating, engagingly written and amazingly relevant in today’s India, these speeches, along with the delightful introduction that cleverly knits them together, will interest every Indian and all those engaging with India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat kind of India are we working for, and for what kind of world? Are hatred and violence and fear and communalism and narrow provincialism to mould our future? Surely not, if there has been any truth in us and in our professions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA university stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for progress, for the adventure of ideas and for the search for truth…But if the temple of learning itself becomes a home of narrow bigotry and petty objectives, how then will the nation prosper or a people grow in stature?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe talk about atomic power, atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, and there is general realization of the tremendous danger to the world in case these are used…Do we recognize, quite as much, that the other source of great danger is the kind of atomic bombs that we nurse in our minds and bosoms? It is out of that, that the other bomb comes and is used.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION 1\u003cbr\u003eMUSHIRUL HASAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSOVEREIGNTY AND THE MAKING OF THE INDIAN REPUBLIC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndependence Resolution\u003cbr\u003eFraming of the Constitution\u003cbr\u003eThe National Flag\u003cbr\u003eIndia becomes a Republic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFREE INDIA IN THE WORLD ORDER\u003cbr\u003eIndia and the Commonwealth\u003cbr\u003eInternational Affairs\u003cbr\u003eIn the Cause of Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SECULAR STATE\u003cbr\u003eTravails of Partition\u003cbr\u003eDoing away with Minority Reservations\u003cbr\u003eUniversities Stand for Tolerance\u003cbr\u003eTolerance and Communal Harmony\u003cbr\u003eSociety and Communalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NATION’S VISION\u003cbr\u003eThe New Tasks before the Nation\u003cbr\u003eA National Vision\u003cbr\u003eBuilding the Nation\u003cbr\u003eStates Reorganization\u003cbr\u003eLanguage Issue\u003cbr\u003eLetter to K M Munshi\u003cbr\u003eScience and Ethics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREFLECTION AND PROFILES\u003cbr\u003eHistory and Culture in Nation-building\u003cbr\u003eNehru on his Contemporaries\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Mushirul Hasan \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40776457355433,"sku":"19810","price":38.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/19810_ba2ca2c8-176e-437e-afc0-48b65e5a6216.jpg?v=1625569991","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/19810-nehrus-india-select-speeches","provider":"The India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}