Word: pandits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stafford Cripps, 16 with the Indian National Congress Party's Jawaharlal Nehru). He got along famously with his Indian callers, freely admitting that he knew nothing about India except what he had learned from Kim and With Clive In India as a boy. Once he quoted to Pandit Nehru: "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right...
...time it was thought that the energetic stranger from the U.S. would be a great help to Sir Stafford. But soon, significantly, Pandit Nehru told the press: "We have not asked for anyone's intervention. For my part, I admire President Roosevelt and consider he has been shouldering a very great burden worthily...
Since the Amritsar massacre of 1919, the British Government has been moving slowly but steadily toward Indian self-government. By the Act of 1935, provincial self-government became a fact. Eight of the eleven British provinces came under majority Governments of Mohand as Gandhi's and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's Indian National Congress, a great nationalist catchall of rich & poor, Hindu & Moslem, left & right. The Congress is the most powerful political group in India, though it has never had more than 4,500,000 paying members. The other three provinces had coalition governments...
Engaged. Indira Nehru, Oxford-graduate daughter of Indian Nationalist leader Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru; and Lawyer Pheroz Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma); in Bombay...
...Pandit Nehru, treating Chiang like a spokesman of John Bull, replied that, "India will never grovel before the Japanese, but will utilize passive resistance." He added, however, that"... the moral factor is the dominating influence in this war, and it would make an immense difference if India and like countries were free." When he said this, he knew well that all India had ever gotten from the British was a series of double-crosses. During the last World War, India was promised "a greater degree of freedom." Then, at the Treaty of Westminster in 1931, the British conveniently forgot this...