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Described as a Hindu agnostic, [301] [302] and styling himself as a "scientific humanist", [303] Nehru thought that religious taboos were preventing India from moving forward and adapting to modern conditions: "No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become ...
"Tryst with Destiny" was an English-language speech by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, to the Indian Constituent Assembly in the Parliament House, on the eve of India's Independence, towards midnight on 14 August 1947.
Congress won sweeping victories, with Nehru reinstated as prime minister, and he began a comprehensive effort to devise a Bill that could be passed. [24] Nehru split the Code Bill into four separate bills, including the Hindu Marriage Act, the Hindu Succession Act, the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, and the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance ...
The journey in The Discovery of India begins from ancient history, leading up to the last years of the British Raj.Nehru uses his knowledge of the Upanishads, Vedas, and textbooks on ancient history to introduce to the reader the development of India from the Indus Valley civilization, through the changes in socio-political scenario every foreign invader brought, to the present day conditions.
Jawaharlal Nehru, famed Indian independence activist and first Prime Minister of India was described as a 'Hindu agnostic', [33] [34] and styled himself as a "scientific humanist". [ 35 ] Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi was an atheist and rationalist who founded the organization Ananda Mahasabha.
The Secular and the Sacred: Nation, Religion, and Politics. Psychology Press. pp. 241–. ISBN 978-0-7146-5368-6. Vivek Swaroop Sharma (2016). "Secularism and Religious Violence in Hinduism and Islam" in Economic and Political Weekly 51 (18), pp. 19–21. Popular works. Dalwai, Hamid Umar (1968). Muslim Politics in Secular India. Hind Pocket Books.
Jawaharlal Nehru opposed partition and believed it couldn't bring communal peace. [63] [64] [65] Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi saw the idea of the partition of India as one that catered to the policies of divide and rule by the British government and he thus strongly opposed it, calling for an Akhand Hindustan (Hindi-Urdu for "united India"). [66]
The light has gone out of our lives is a speech that was delivered ex tempore by Jawaharlal Nehru, [1] the first Prime Minister of India, on January 30, 1948, following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi earlier that evening. It is often cited as one of the greatest speeches in history.