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Jawaharlal Nehru | |
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| Born | 14 November 1889 Allahabad, British Raj |
| Died | 27 May 1964 New Delhi, India |
| Political orientation | Social democracy Progressive nationalism |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an anti-colonial Indian politician and independence activist who served as India's first prime minister from 1947 to 1964.
Political views[edit | edit source]
Nehru admired the Soviet Union when he visited it in 1927 and noted that the material conditions of India were similar to those of pre-revolutionary Russia.[1] In 1954, he called for a ban on testing nuclear weapons.[2]
Prime Minister[edit | edit source]
Despite his earlier support for the Soviet Union, Nehru removed a Communist government from power in Kerala.[3] The official reason for dissolving the Kerala government was due to mass protests against the Communist Party of India's policies. According to the 1978 book, A Dangerous Place by former Statesian ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the CIA was involved in orchestrating these protests. His statements are corroborated by Howard Schaffer, the biographer of Ellsworth Bunker, the Statesian ambassador to India (1956–61), who confirmed Statesian involvement in funding the agitation against E. M. S. Namboodiripad’s communist government to prevent the emergence of "additional Keralas"[4].
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Vijay Prashad (2017). Red Star over the Third World: 'Peasant Soviets' (pp. 55–56). [PDF] New Delhi: LeftWord Books.
- ↑ Vijay Prashad (2008). The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World: 'Belgrade' (p. 101). [PDF] The New Press. ISBN 9781595583420 [LG]
- ↑ Vijay Prashad (2008). The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World: 'Bali' (p. 162). [PDF] The New Press. ISBN 9781595583420 [LG]
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