Below are extracts from the internet websites about Nehru Family. Some are good and some are bad reflections about this family; the 'bad' are larger number than the good. Please read on to get an idea of how well India has been governed since 1947."
JL Nehru, the Good and Bad. Nehru had his share of party problems, whether it was with Subhash Chandra Bose or Purushottam Tandon, but then he combined the force of his personality and tbe powerful sanction provided by the freedom movement to ward off challenges. In the concluding years of his life, when the China war of 1962 showed up his vulnerability, the political system began to rumble with discontent, and there is no guarantee that the Congress would have fared much better in 1967 if he'd been around. But even though he failed to convert it into a cadre-ba-sed party, he did recognise that if the party had to function, it had to have inner-party democracy. The method was frequent and regular party elections, from the bottom to the top.
No elections have been held within the Congress since 1969 and the party's democraticculture has yielded to a 'nomination' culture with power funnelling to a few, giving birth to extra-constitutional authority. "It is a questicn of attitude to some ex-tent," says former Congressman C. Subramaniam. "Since about 1975-76, chief ministers have been nominated and the Centre has had to pay for whatever they've done wrong." Nehru wouldn't recognise his party today, the degeneration of political morality, the buying and selling of legislators, their agile floor-crossings and the contortions of the Conaress(1) to form govern-ments Adeservingly. In 1952, the ~adras state electorate voted decisively against the Congress. C.Rajagopalachari was none-theless keen to form a government. But Nehru wrote to him: "The one thing we must avoid is giving the impression that we stick to office, and that we want to keep out others at all costs." Rajagopalachari succeeded with Governor Sri Prakasha's help, but he lost Nehru's respect....
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India-China 1962 War and Nehru / Why India lost the 1962 War. "I remember many a time when our senior generals came to us, and wrote to the defence ministry saying that they wanted certain things... If we had had foresight, known exactly what would happen, we would have done something else... what India has learnt from the Chinese invasion is that in the world of today there is no place for weak nations... We have been living in an unreal world of our own creation."
The statement was made by then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in Rajya Sabha, in 1963, after India's humiliating defeat at the hands of China. It is an eye opening statement from a leader who always viewed international politics from his own utopian prism.
The defeat in the 1962 border war made him realise that there is indeed no place for weak nations in the world politics.
"In the political and diplomatic fields too, significant changes came through the 1962 episode, bringing more realism," notes the official Indian history of the border war between India and China.
The India-China war was an eye-opener for India. But even after 45 years, the people of India are not aware of the circumstances and reasons that led to India's defeat. The popular belief among the masses is that China betrayed Indian trust and attacked our defenses in the Ladakh and North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region.
But the government inquiry in the defeat (still classified), the official history of the Government of India (1992), declassified documents from China and United States of America, and a huge amount of research on the subject by Indian analysts and experts reveal startling facts about the war.
The most significant reason of our defeat is that the political leadership of that time failed India. It was not Chinese betrayal, but then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Defence Minister V K Krishna Menon's arrogant belief that they would solve the crisis through diplomacy and that China would not dare attack India despite the latter's 'Forward Policy'.
This policy and the duo's assumption of Chinese in-action in event of crisis was firmly supported by then Intelligence Bureau Director B N Mullick, who, according to some analysts, was also responsible for misleading the political leadership........
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Father of Motilal Nehru was a Kotwal of Delhi , when mughals still ruled from Delhi , his name was purportedly to be Ganga Dhar , but his real was Ghiyazuddin Ghazi . When British stormed Delhi , this man Ghiyazuddin Ghazi escaped disguised as a Kashmiri Brahmin . First to Agra , then to Allahabad , where he started a Brothel ( with his innumerable Hindu Wives ) , where motilal Nehru was born . Read full details here
How JL Nehru became India's Prime Minister. One important episode that could change the political lines of the country had shaped up just a year of attaining independence. During the election for the Congress presidency in 1946, thirteen of the sixteen states proposed Sardar Patel's name for the post. It was a very crucial election, as the elected president of the congress party would be later considered as the first Prime Minister of independent India. Just a few days, before the all important election, Mahatma Gandhi request Sardar Patel to leave the candidacy and support Jawaharlal Nehru. Sardar Patel, without pondering twice, stepped down. Read full details here
It is Indira's oversexed nature that had prevented her from completing her studies in London as well as in Bolpur, near Calcutta. In both places, she was too busy with her sexual proclivities and could not properly complete her education. In Oxford, she was told to leave the college for non-performance. At Shantiniketan she was found with a European professor in a compromising position in his bedroom (in flagrante delicto) and Gurudev himself wrote to Jawahar to fly down from Delhi and take his daughter back to his place. At the time, so goes the story, the Gurudev had told Jawahar that his humble university (Vishwabharati) could not handle his daughter, as her demands were too high for Bolpur. That was the end of Indira's formal education. Read full details here
, who is this Feroze? We are told by many that he was the son of the family grocer. The grocer supplied wines, etc. to Anand Bhavan, previously known as Ishrat Manzil, which once belonged to a Muslim lawyer named Mobarak Ali. Moti Lal was earlier an employee of Mobarak Ali. What was the family grocer's name? One frequently hears that Rajiv Gandhi's grandfather was Pandit Nehru. But then we all know that everyone has two grandfathers, the paternal and the maternal grandfathers. In fact, the paternal grandfather is deemed to be the more important grandfather in most societies...... Read full details here