This volume includes twenty-one representative speeches from Jawaharlal Nehru's 'Prime Ministerial years'. They contribute an early articulation of government position and policies vis-à-vis infrastructural development, the roles of government and business, the differing requirements of communities and languages, and the inseparability of science and ethics. INDICE: Introduction; SOVEREIGNTY AND THE MAKING OF THE INDIAN REPUBLIC; Independence Resolution /Framing of the Constitution; The National Flag; India becomes a Republic; FREE INDIA IN THE WORLD ORDER; India and the Commonwealth; International Affairs; In the Cause of Peace; THE SECULAR STATE; Travails of Partition; Doing Away with Minority Reservations; Universities Stand for Tolerance; Tolerance and Communal Harmony; Society and Communalism; THE NATION'SVISION; The New Tasks before the Nation; A National Vision; Building the Nation; States Reorganization; Language Issue; Letter to K.M. Munshi; Science and Ethics; REFLECTIONS AND PROFILES; History and Culture in Nation-building; Nehru on his Companions
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806942-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 284
- Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés