brief the emergences of new national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra
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Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose: The friendship that never was
In the introduction to his book on the parallel lives of Nehru and Bose, Historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee explores the role played in their lives by Mahatma Gandhi.
Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Nov 22, 2014 · 08:30 pm
Born in Calcutta five years after India’s independence, I was brought up in the shadow of Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose. One was the first prime minister of India, and during my childhood the most important public figure in the country. The other was the most revered icon in Bengal’s political pantheon.
In public discourse and in informal conversations the two figures were often seen as rivals, and many Bengalis were convinced that Subhas, by far the greater man as many Bengalis believed, was deliberately eclipsed in national politics by Jawaharlal who always acted at the behest of Gandhi. But it was Subhas, his admirers averred, who ultimately brought freedom to India.
As a child and as an adolescent, I was taught to disregard these views that glorified Subhas at the expense of Jawaharlal and Gandhi. I use the word ‘taught’ advisedly since this was an important component of the non-formal history lessons that my father imparted to me.
My father ‒ the most important intellectual influence on my life till I went to college ‒ was not an admirer of Subhas. He recognized the latter’s patriotism but saw him as being misguided because he had sought an alliance with Hitler and the Axis powers in the 1940s. My father had pronounced anti-fascist and anti-Stalinist views and saw himself as an unabashed Nehruvian. Jawaharlal, according to him, had the right ideas and attitudes. My ‘history lessons’ at home were thus slanted in favour of Jawaharlal; Subhas was rather neglected.
As a student of history in college and in university, this indifference towards Subhas was fortified by the manner in which the Indian national movement was taught. He was not seen as belonging to the mainstream. By this time, my own understanding of fascism and European history of the 1930s and 1940s had also evolved and this had strengthened the anti-fascist and anti-totalitarian sentiments embedded in my mind by my father.
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Born in Calcutta five years after India’s independence, I was brought up in the shadow of Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose. One was the first prime minister of India, and during my childhood the most important public figure in the country. The other was the most revered icon in Bengal’s political pantheon.
In public discourse and in informal conversations the two figures were often seen as rivals, and many Bengalis were convinced that Subhas, by far the greater man as many Bengalis believed, was deliberately eclipsed in national politics by Jawaharlal who always acted at the behest of Gandhi. But it was Subhas, his admirers averred, who ultimately brought freedom to India.
As a child and as an adolescent, I was taught to disregard these views that glorified Subhas at the expense of Jawaharlal and Gandhi. I use the word ‘taught’ advisedly since this was an important component of the non-formal history lessons that my father imparted to me.
My father ‒ the most important intellectual influence on my life till I went to college ‒ was not an admirer of Subhas. He recognized the latter’s patriotism but saw him as being misguided because he had sought an alliance with Hitler and the Axis powers in the 1940s. My father had pronounced anti-fascist and anti-Stalinist views and saw himself as an unabashed Nehruvian. Jawaharlal, according to him, had the right ideas and attitudes. My ‘history lessons’ at home were thus slanted in favour of Jawaharlal; Subhas was rather neglected.