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Nayantara Sahgal is Jawaharlal Nehru’s niece — and co-editor of Nehru’s India: Essays on the Maker of a Nation. As India celebrates its vibrant democracy, Sahgal spoke with Srijana Mitra Das about the nation’s formative first PM, freedom, Partition, China, dynasty — and Lady Chatterley’s Lover:
You tackle Nehru-revisionism — why is this growing?
I think the government now has almost a psychopathic fear of Nehru — they wish to wipe him out of history.
In the recent Bandung conference, the foreign minister completely left Nehru out of her speech. Considering he was a founder-member of Non-Alignment, that was strange. It was like recounting the Ramayana — and leaving Rama out.
Government wants to rewrite history — and write Nehru out.
But why Nehru particularly?
Well, Nehru represented not just a Nehruvian idea of India.
It was the idea of India from the national movement under Mahatma Gandhi, with pluralism, religious equality, a secular, democratic state, an atheist prime minister.
Speaking of secularism, Nisid Hajari’s book feels Nehru could’ve averted Partition by acceding to Jinnah — what’s your view?
In my view, that’s a piece of nonsense. There was no question that Nehru so greatly desired being PM. Jinnah’s absolute desire for a Muslim state was responsible — if he hadn’t raised the idea of Pakistan, there wouldn’t have been Partition.
Jinnah called for Direct Action Day — slaughters started, making Partition unavoidable.
Why do you blame America for Nehru’s break with China?
These are a Tibetan historian’s views. In the Cold War, USSR and USA fought proxy battles. CIA orchestrated an uprising in Lhasa. China believed there was an international conspiracy against it — and wrongly thought India part of it.
Nehru was scrupulously neutral on Tibet. Yet, in 1959, this radically changed China’s approach to India. They attacked in 1962.
Is Nehru, passing on in 1964, blamed for what followed — Mrs Gandhi, Emergency, dynasty?
You cannot blame a man for what happens after him! Indira Gandhi started dynastic succession. Nehru had nothing to do with it.
Indira made big mistakes — but those can’t be blamed on Nehru.
You were a critic of Indira Gandhi’s authoritarianism.
Yes. People said, support your family. I said, I am supporting my family — I’m defending Nehru’s ideals. She isn’t.
That caused a rift. Though she and I were very close once — I was her favourite cousin — she couldn’t take this opposition.
Is Rahul Gandhi trying new-age Nehruvian discoveries of India?
How can one compare Rahul with Nehru, one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century? There can be no parallel.
Rahul speaks strongly now but his issues are Congress issues. They’ve always been pro-poor.
Meanwhile, you’re strongly anti-Hindutva.
I’m concerned about growing assaults on freedom of expression and thought.
But contradictions persist — didn’t Nehru push India’s first book ban, reportedly prohibiting D H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover?
I don’t recall this. However, if Lady Chatterley was banned then, a great deal more’s being banned now. Writers like Murugan are hounded. As a writer, I oppose any bans.
The Indian Writers’ Forum has now been formed — we’ll speak collectively against such episodes.
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You tackle Nehru-revisionism — why is this growing?
I think the government now has almost a psychopathic fear of Nehru — they wish to wipe him out of history.
In the recent Bandung conference, the foreign minister completely left Nehru out of her speech. Considering he was a founder-member of Non-Alignment, that was strange. It was like recounting the Ramayana — and leaving Rama out.
Government wants to rewrite history — and write Nehru out.
But why Nehru particularly?
Well, Nehru represented not just a Nehruvian idea of India.
It was the idea of India from the national movement under Mahatma Gandhi, with pluralism, religious equality, a secular, democratic state, an atheist prime minister.
Speaking of secularism, Nisid Hajari’s book feels Nehru could’ve averted Partition by acceding to Jinnah — what’s your view?
In my view, that’s a piece of nonsense. There was no question that Nehru so greatly desired being PM. Jinnah’s absolute desire for a Muslim state was responsible — if he hadn’t raised the idea of Pakistan, there wouldn’t have been Partition.
Jinnah called for Direct Action Day — slaughters started, making Partition unavoidable.
Why do you blame America for Nehru’s break with China?
These are a Tibetan historian’s views. In the Cold War, USSR and USA fought proxy battles. CIA orchestrated an uprising in Lhasa. China believed there was an international conspiracy against it — and wrongly thought India part of it.
Nehru was scrupulously neutral on Tibet. Yet, in 1959, this radically changed China’s approach to India. They attacked in 1962.
Is Nehru, passing on in 1964, blamed for what followed — Mrs Gandhi, Emergency, dynasty?
You cannot blame a man for what happens after him! Indira Gandhi started dynastic succession. Nehru had nothing to do with it.
Indira made big mistakes — but those can’t be blamed on Nehru.
You were a critic of Indira Gandhi’s authoritarianism.
Yes. People said, support your family. I said, I am supporting my family — I’m defending Nehru’s ideals. She isn’t.
That caused a rift. Though she and I were very close once — I was her favourite cousin — she couldn’t take this opposition.
Is Rahul Gandhi trying new-age Nehruvian discoveries of India?
How can one compare Rahul with Nehru, one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century? There can be no parallel.
Rahul speaks strongly now but his issues are Congress issues. They’ve always been pro-poor.
Meanwhile, you’re strongly anti-Hindutva.
I’m concerned about growing assaults on freedom of expression and thought.
But contradictions persist — didn’t Nehru push India’s first book ban, reportedly prohibiting D H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover?
I don’t recall this. However, if Lady Chatterley was banned then, a great deal more’s being banned now. Writers like Murugan are hounded. As a writer, I oppose any bans.
The Indian Writers’ Forum has now been formed — we’ll speak collectively against such episodes.
Hope it helps
If s then mark it as Brainliest and say thank..3 more Brainliest needed..
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