Q. Which moment is
considered as the moment of
weakness by Nehru?
Answers
Answer:
There are many moment which are
considered as the moment of
weakness by Nehru
Answer:
The inner life of Jawaharlal Nehru remains an enigma. The profusion of biographies and the occasional journalistic pieces, written when his birth anniversary made him the flavour of the week, will disappoint you if you are looking for his intellectual life. The focus there is on the public sphere and what Nehru did, not so much on his thoughts. And that is a tale often told. As a famous wit has said, we don’t know if history repeats itself but historians repeat each other.
Where do we look for the man’s life of the mind? One gets, of course, glimpses of it in Nehru’s autobiographical writings. And one gets it direct, unadorned by afterthoughts, in his private letters. Not all of those letters are open to researchers yet, but a good deal are. Most people dress up their thoughts out of the ideological wardrobe of their choice, as did Nehru sometimes in his mature years. But, if you read his letters, you might see that as a rule in his private communications he was not given to dressing up his thoughts like that.
When we situate these letters in the context of contemporary history they speak to us in tones which ring true. They reveal to us moments of crisis, that is to say moments of decision, marking a turning point in his thoughts. We can learn more from those moments than the routinised expressions of thought which had settled into a groove in hundreds of his press statements and speeches and articles. Perhaps, one such moment came in 1945 when Nehru confided to Mahatma Gandhi in a series of letters his dissent from some of the basic premises of Gandhism. The debate between them about Nehru’s dissenting thoughts was hidden from public view. Yet, this crisis in the mind of the foremost follower of Mahatma Gandhi was crucially important and foreshadowed the policy that Nehru developed in the post-Independence decades. Another such turning point in Nehru’s thoughts and consequent political agenda occurred in the middle of the 1930s when the socialist activism of his younger days gave way to a stance of cautious negotiation with the Old Guard in the Indian National Congress. A third critical moment of departure from ideas cherished earlier was brought about by a huge blow to his vision of Asian and Third World unity and his slogan of Panchsheel and all that, during the border conflict with China in 1962. Of these three critical moments — involving Nehru’s approach to the Gandhian heritage, towards socialism and the Left, and to India’s interface with global politics — the first was obviously the most momentous in his intellectual life.
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