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But for a series of major blunders by Nehru across the spectrumit would not be an exaggeration to say that he blundered comprehensivelyIndia would have been on a rapidly ascending path to becoming a shining, prosperous, first-world country by the end of his term, and would surely have become so by early 1980sprovided, of course, Nehrus dynasty had not followed him to power. Sadly, the Nehru era laid the foundations of Indias poverty and misery, condemning it to be forever a developing, third-rate, third-world country. By chronicling those blunders, this book highlights THE FACTS BEHIND THE FACADE.This Revised, Enlarged & Unabridged, April-2019 Edition of the book comprises (a)127 Major Blunders compared to 97 of the first Digital Edition of July 2016; (b)over twice the matter, and number of words; and (c)exhaustive citations and complete bibliography.Table of contents:-PrefaceA Note on Citations & Bibliography1. Pre-Independence BlundersBlunder1 : Usurping Congress Presidentship in 1929Blunder2 : Setting Jinnah on Path to PakistanBlunder3 : Scoring Self-GoalMinistry Resignations, 1939Blunder4 : Leg-up to Jinnah & the Muslim League (AIML)Blunder5 : Assams Security CompromisedBlunder6 : Nehrus Undemocratic Elevation as the First PMBlunder7 : Aborted Cabinet Mission Plan for United IndiaBlunder8 : NWFP Blunder 1946Blunder9 : Making Jews out of Hindu SindhisBlunder10 : Giving Away 55 Crores to PakistanBlunder11 : Pre-Independence Dynasty PromotionBlunder12 : What Really Led to Indias Independence?Blunder13 : British Jails: Nehru/Top-Gandhians as VIPs vs. OthersBlunder14 : Clueless on the Roots of Partition & PakistanBlunder15 : Unplanned & Grossly Mismanaged PartitionBlunder16 : No Worthwhile Policy Formulations!2. Integration of the Princely StatesBlunder17 : Independent India dependent upon the British!Blunder18 : Nehru Refused J&K Accession when Offered!Blunder19 : Allowing Kashmir to be almost LostBlunder20 : Unconditional J&K Accession Made ConditionalBlunder21 : Internationalisation of the Kashmir IssueBlunder22 : Inept Handling of the J&K Issue in the UNBlunder23 : PoK thanks to NehruBlunder24 : Nehrus Shocking Callousness in J&KBlunder25 : Article-370 thanks to NehruBlunder26 : Article 35A for J&K, Again thanks to NehruBlunder27 : Nehrus Blood Brother Who DeceivedBlunder28 : Wanting Maharaja to Lick his BootsBlunder29 : Kashmiri Pandits vs. Kashmiri PanditsBlunder30 : Sidelining the One Who Could have Tackled J&KBlunder31 : Junagadh: Sardar Patel vs. NehruMountbattenBlunder32 : Would-have-been Pakistan-II (Hyderabad)3. External SecurityBlunder33 : Erasure of Tibet as a NationBlunder34 : PanchsheelSelling Tibet; Harming SelfBlunder35 : Not Settling Boundary Dispute with ChinaBlunder36 : The Himalayan Blunder: India-China WarBlunder37 : Criminal Neglect of Defence & External SecurityBlunder38 : Politicisation of the ArmyBlunder39 : Anti Armed-ForcesBlunder40 : Lethargic Intelligence Machinery & No PlanningBlunder41 : Suppressing TruthBlunder42 : Himalayan Blunders, but No AccountabilityBlunder43 : Delayed Liberation of GoaBlunder44 : Nehrus NO to Nuclear ArmsBlunder45 : No Settlement with PakistanBlunder46 : Responsible for 1965-War too, in a wayBlunder47 : International Record in Insecure Borders4. Foreign PolicyBlunder48 : NehruLiaquat Pact 1950Blunder49 : Letting Go of GwadarBlunder50 : Indus Water TreatyHimalayan BlunderBlunder51 : No Initiative on Sri Lankan Tamil ProblemBlunder52 : Erroneous Nehru-Era MapBlunder53 : Advocating Chinas UNSC Membership at Our CostBlunder54 : Rebuffing Israel, the Friend-in-NeedBlunder55 : Neglecting Southeast AsiaBlunder56 : India vs. the US & the WestBlunder57 : Non-Aligned with National InterestsBlunder58 : Foreign to Foreign Policy5. Internal SecurityBlunder59 : Compounding Difficulties in AssamBlunder60 : Neglect of the NortheastBlunder61 : Ignoring Illegal ProselytizationBlunder62 : Ungoverned AreasBlunder63 : Insecurity of the Vulnerable Sections6. EconomyBlunder64 : Grinding Poverty & Terrible Living ConditionsBlunder65 : Throttled IndustrialisationBlunder66 : Neglect of AgricultureBlunder67 : Builder of Modern IndiaBlunder68 : Pathetic India vs. Other CountriesBlunder69 : Nehruvian (and NOT Hindu) Rate of GrowthBlunder70 : Nehrus Socialism: The God that Failed7. MisgovernanceBlunder71 : Debilitating Babudom & Criminal-Justice SystemBlunder72 : That Strange Indian Animal: VIP & VVIPBlunder73 : Corruption in the Good Old DaysBlunder74 : Nepotism in the Good Old DaysBlunder75 : Nehru & CasteismBlunder76 : Messy Reorganisation of StatesBlunder77 : Poor Leadership & AdministrationBlunder78 : Squandering Once-in-a-lifetime Opportunity8. Educational & Cultural MismanagementBlunder79 : Neglect of Universal EducationBlunder80 : Messing Up the Language IssueBlunder81 : Promoting Urdu & Persian-Arabic ScriptBlunder82 : Neglect of SanskritBlunder83 : Rise of the Parasitic Leftist-Liberal ClassBlunder84 : Mental & Cultural SlaveryBlunder85 : Distorted, Self-Serving Secularism & MinorityismBlunder86 : Nehru & Uniform Civil Code (UCC)Blunder87 : Sickularism vs. Somnath TempleBlunder88 : Would-have-been Communal ReservationBlunder89 : Not Seeking Reparations from the BritishNehru and the Distortion of Indian History & HeritageBlunder90 : No De-Falsification of HistoryBlunder91 : Being Creative With HistoryBlunder92 : Nehru & NegationismBlunder93 : Distortions of History by Nehru HimselfBlunder94 : Being Anti-Hindu9. Dynacracy & Dictatorial TendenciesBlunder95 : Nehrus Dictatorial WaysBlunder96 : NehruPower Trumps PrinciplesBlunder97 : Nehru Curbed Freedom of ExpressionFurther Blunders Beyond 97Blunder98 : Democracy, thanks to Nehru?NOT TrueBlunder99 : Nehru Promoted Dynacracy, NOT DemocracyBlunder100 : Not Limiting the Term of the PMBlunder101 : Not Appointing a Successor, DeliberatelyBlunder102 : Election Funding & PublicityBlunder103 : Ensuring Self-Publicity & Dynastic RecallBlunder104 : Communal, Vote-Bank PoliticsBlunder105 : Promoting Incompetents & Sycophants10. Nehrus World ViewThat Harmed IndiaBlunder106 : Nehrus Defective World ViewBlunder107 : Nehruvianism & Nehrus Idea of India11. Hubris, Ill-Treatment of OthersBlunder108 : Modest Academics, Pathetic Grasp of Vital Issues, YetBlunder109 : Lordly WaysGood Bye to Gandhian SimplicityBlunder110 : Arrogant, Conceited & Full of HubrisBlunder111 : Bharat RatnasIgnoring the DeservingBlunder112 : Nehru & Netaji Subhas MysteryBlunder113 : Nehru & Netajis Stolen War ChestBlunder114 : Gross Ill-Treatment of INABlunder115 : Ill-Treatment of Netaji BoseBlunder116 : Ill-Treatment of Bhagat Singh & AzadBlunder117 : Ill-Treatment of Veer SavarkarBlunder118 : Ill-Treatment of Sardar PatelBlunder119 : Ill-Treatment of Sardar Patels Daughter ManibenBlunder120 : Ill-Treatment of Dr AmbedkarBlunder121 : Ill-Treatment of Dr Shyama Prasad MukherjeeBlunder122 : Ill-Treatment of Dr Rajendra PrasadBlunder123 : Ill-treatment of PD TandonBlunder124 : Ill-Treatment of BordoloiBlunder125 : Ill-Treatment of General ThimayyaBlunder126 : Ill-Treatment of PublicBlunder127 : Special Treatment for Edwina Mountbatten12. Even More Blunders & Related AspectsNehru Gifted Kabo ValleyPaying Respects to Babar!13. Evaluating Nehru14. Bibliography
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127 MAJOR BLUNDERS
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Nehrus 97 Major Blunders
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Preface
...[then] it seemed to me that Jawaharlal should be the new President [of Congress in 1946and hence the first Prime Minister] ...I acted according to my best judgement but the way things have shaped since then has made me to realise that this was perhaps the greatest blunder of my political life... My second mistake was that when I decided not to stand myself, I did not support Sardar Patel.
Abul Kalam Azad, India Wins Freedom {Azad/162}
He [Nehru] had no idea of economics. He talked of socialism, but he did not know how to define it. He talked of social justice, but I told him he could have this only when there was an increase in production. He did not grasp that. So you need a leader who understands economic issues and will invigorate your economy.
Chester Bowles, US Ambassador
On Nehru: a man of echoes and mimicry, the last viceroy rather than the first leader of a liberated India.
Malcolm Muggeridge, British journalist {SG/193}
If the future is full of hope it is largely because of Soviet Russia.
Jawaharlal Nehru {URL28}
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
David Lloyd George, UK PM (1916-22)
Poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. Such countries develop extractive institutions that keep poor countries poor.
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in Why Nations Fail
(Nehru laid the foundations of Extractive Institutions)
(Nehru laid the foundations of Extractive Institutions)
Said Nehru
(The Nabob of Cluelessness, as someone remarked)
I can tell this House [Parliament] that at no time since our independence, and of course before it, were our defence forces in better condition, in finer fettle...than they are today {Max/132} (prior to 1962 India-China war)
(I hope I am not leaving you as cannon fodder for the Chinese. God bless you all.Army chief KS Thimayya in his farewell speech in 1961)
It is completely impracticable for the Chinese Government to think of anything in the nature of invasion of India. Therefore I rule it out... {AS/103}
We were getting out of touch with reality in the modern world and we were living in an artificial atmosphere of our creation... {Zak/149}
We feel India has been ill-repaid for her diplomatic friendliness toward Peking... Difficult to say the Chinese have deliberately deceived us... We may have deceived ourselves... {AS/38}
But for a series of major blunders by Nehru across the spectrumit would not be an exaggeration to say that he blundered comprehensivelyIndia would have been on a rapidly ascending path to becoming a shining, prosperous, first-world country by the end of his term, and would surely have become so by early 1980sprovided, of course, Nehrus dynasty had not followed him to power. Sadly, the Nehru era laid the foundations of Indias poverty and misery, condemning it to be forever a developing, third-rate, third-world country. By chronicling those blunders, this book highlights THE FACTS BEHIND THE FACADE.
Blunders is used in this book as a general term to also include failures, neglect, wrong policies, bad decisions, despicable and disgraceful acts, usurping undeserved posts, etc.
It is not the intention of this book to be critical of Nehru, but historical facts, that have often been distorted or glossed over or suppressed must be known widely, lest the mistakes be repeated, and so that India has a brighter future.
Unable to eulogise Nehru on facts, many admirers resort to innovative counterfactuals like: Had it not been for Nehru India would not have remained united and secular. But for Nehru, there would have been no democracy, and the citizens would not have enjoyed freedom... (Pl. check chapter-9) If facts dont help you, go by presumptions and probabilities!
What if one advanced an alternate counterfactual and argued that an alternate person (like say Sardar Patel or C Rajagopalachari or Dr BR Ambedkar) as prime minister would have made India more united, more secure, more secular and free from communalism, more democratic and much more prosperouson way to a first-world nation by 1964!
Nehrus leadership is unique not only in terms of the paucity of achievements, or the large gap between the potential and the actuals, or a very poor show compared to other comparable nations; but in the blunders that he made. Other leaders too make mistakes, but Nehru can beat them all hands down. The number, the extent, and the comprehensiveness of the Nehruvian blunders cant be matched. Comprehensive? Other leaders blunder in one or two or three areas. Not Nehru. His was a 360 degree coverage. He blundered in practically all areas (and sub-areas, and in very many ways): external security, internal security, foreign policy, economy, education, culture, its a long list. An examination of his record leaves you gasping. Here is a very cryptic label to capture the essential Nehru: Nabob of Cluelessness.
Nehru bequeathed a toxic political (dynastic and undemocratic), economic (socialistic), industrial (inefficient and burdensome public and state sector), agricultural (neglected and starved), geographic (most borders insecure), administrative (incompetent and corrupt babudom), historical (Marxist and Leftist distortion), educational (elitist, and no universal literacy), and cultural (no pride in Indian heritage) legacy.
Of course, quite irrespective of the fact that the balance-sheet of the Nehru-period was deep in red, it cannot be denied that Nehru meant well: it is another matter that his erroneous understanding of economics, foreign affairs, external security and many more things led to policies that proved disastrous for the country. Also, he was well-intentioned. But, then, road to hell is often paved with good intentions!
One may say: Why sweat over Nehru? He is long gone. Long gonephysically. But, much of his thinking and policies still unfortunately survive. It is necessary to understand that he followed a wrong path, and the nation needs to gain freedom from those ideas and forge ahead. There is nothing personal here. Nobody has anything against Nehru, as a person. But, if thanks to his policies, millions suffered, and thanks to the continuation of his policies, millions continue to suffer, then it is not a dead historical question.
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