Word: nehru
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...Thus Nehru the moralist, to whose terrible truisms the only answer is a shamefaced...
...Nehru, at least to Western eyes, is no inscrutable, innocent madman of integrity like William Blake. Why, then-Western minds would like to know-doesn't Nehru the moralist make Nehru the leader hang his head in shame? Perhaps he does; but the practical West, which must deal with net results, is necessarily less concerned with Nehru the paradox than with Nehru the politico...
Like millions of Indians who follow in his train, Nehru is a paradox. He is not a typical Indian: he is a Westernized Oriental. Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the godparents of Fabian Socialism, are in a truer sense his creators than Vishnu and Siva...
...Agnostic. In religion, Nehru is a typical Western agnostic. In politics, he is a Western liberal with Socialist leanings. The mind of Jawaharlal Nehru (born 1889) came into consciousness during a quiet period of Indian history. The great Mutiny of 1857 was only a rankling memory, and the Indian National Congress, which was to become the first instrument of liberation, was a polite assemblage in morning coats. It was Western influence that made Nehru a nationalist. Garibaldi was his hero long before Gandhi was. Nehru's family were wealthy and progressive aristocrats; religion, to the men of his house...
Paradoxically, it was a Westerner who first brought Nehru to Hinduism: his Irish tutor was a Theosophist, and such an influence that at the age of 13 Nehru was inducted into the Theosophical Society by Mrs. Annie Besant* in person...