While it is generally known that Mahatma Gandhi had a great affection for Jawaharlal Nehru, and that this was one of the most important factors in the latter succeeding him as the leading figure in the Indian National Congress and becoming the Prime Minister of India, it is seldom realized that the relationship between the two was one of the determining factors in the history of the Congress party and consequently in that of modern India, both before and after the achievement of Independence. To bring all this into focus has been the main objective of this work.
Part one of the book consists of the texts containing letters exchanged between Gandhi and Nehru, and part two shows the impact of the Gandhi-Nehru relationship on the history of the Indian National Congress. Some of the moving writings of Nehru on Gandhi after the latter's passing away, showing Nehru's deep attachment to the Master, follow. The Introduction not only sums up the materials in two parts, but also discusses the impact of the Gandhi-Nehru relationship on the history of India during the Nehru Era.
The book will be of tremendous interest to the general public as well as to scholars of modern Indian history in general, and of Gandhi and Nehru in particular.
• Foreword 7
• Introduction 9
• Part ONE
• Select Correspondence Between Gandhi And Nehru
• Chapter 1: Gandhi to Nehru, 4.1.1928 29
• Chapter 2: Nehru to Gandhi, 11.1.1928 30
• Chapter 3: Gandhi to Nehru, 17.1.1928 37
• Chapter 4: Nehru to Gandhi, 23.1.1928 40
• Chapter 5: Gandhi to Nehru, After 1 July 1929 43
• Chapter 6: Nehru to Gandhi, 13.7.1929 44
• Chapter 7: Gandhi to Nehru, 2.5.1933 47
• Chapter 8: Nehru to Gandhi, 13.9.1933 49
• Chapter 9: Gandhi to Nehru, 14.9.1933 55
• Chapter 10: Nehru to Gandhi, 13.8.1934 61
• Chapter 11: Gandhi to Nehru, 17.8.1934 68
• Chapter 12: Gandhi to Nehru, 3.10.1935 71
• Chapter 13: Nehru to Gandhi, 5.7.1936 72
• Chapter 14: Gandhi to Nehru, 8.7.1936 77
• Chapter 15: Gandhi to Nehru, 15.7.1936 79
• Chapter 16: Gandhi to Nehru, 5.10.1945 81
• Chapter 17: Nehru to Gandhi, 9.10.1945 85
• Chapter 18: Gandhi to Nehru, 13.11.1945 89
• Chapter 19: Gandhi to Nehru, 18.1.1948 91
• Chapter 20: Nehru's Note to Dorothy Norman 92
• Part TWO
• Appendices
• Resolution on Fundamental Rights and Duties and Economic and Social Programme as Adopted by the Karachi Congress (March 1931) and Finalized by the Bombay AICC,August 1931 95
• Congress Working Committee's Statement on India and the War Crisis, 14 September 1939 99
• Resolutions Adopted by Congress Working Committee , 14 July 1942 106
• 'Quit India' Resolution Adopted by the All-India Congress
• Committee, 8 August 1942 110
• AICC's Resolution Setting up the Objectives and Economic Programme Committee, 15 June 1947 116
• The Light has Gone Out: Nehru's Broadcast to the Nation Announcing the Death of Mahatma Gandhi, 30 January 1948 118
• A Glory that is no More: Nehru's Speech in the Constituent Assembly (Legislative), 2 February 1948 121
• The Last Journey, 12 February 1948 126
• The Perfect Artist, Written by Nehru on 5 February 1948 and Published in Harijan, 15 February 1948 132
• Nehru's Reminiscenses of Gandhi (1949) 136
• Index 163
