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Jawaharlal Nehru

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A theory must be tempered with reality.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


#certain #economic #economic problems #life #only

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


#least #most #often #own #person

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


#consideration #detailed #enough #good #not good enough

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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World War II and Quit India
When World war II started Viceroy Linlithgow had unilaterally declared India a belligerent on the side of the Britain without consulting the elected Indian representatives. [they] provided Nehru the initial impulse for [his] long intellectual quest which culminated. He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi who were to later serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India respectively.

Chiefly he oversaw India's transition from a monarchy to a republic while nurturing a plural multi-party democracy. As Prime Minister Nehru set out to realise his vision of India. Nehru was elected by the Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister although the question of leadership had been settled as far back in 1941 when Gandhi acknowledged Nehru as his political heir and successor.

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