Gandhi And Nehru

Papua and motorbus Builders of Modern India During the last two thousand five hundred years and more of Indians history, two individual combinations made tremendous impact two on Indians civilization and polity. The first duo was that of Cattily and his trusted disciple contractual Marry who together laid the foundation of the first bang-up diachronic empire of ancient India. The other duo was that of Mahatma Gandhi and mountebank Nehru who were instrumental in laying the base of a modern Indian state and bounteous shape to ideas in the realm of education, culture and democracy. Gandhi founded the swell Ashram after turn of events from South Africa and successfully employed the principles of Straight in uniting the peasants of stand and Champaign against the government. After this victory Gandhi was bestowed the title of Papua and Mahatma and his fame spread far and wide. Charlatan Nehru was not only the first Prime Minister of India, notwithstanding in that opacity, was al so a major world figure during the mid- 20th century.Like earthy melodic theme field leaders who first lead, or play a major fibre in leading, their nation to independence, Nehru was widely loved and respected and ended up not only serving as the nations deader for many years simply also shaped much of the nations political emotional state. Practically every semiofficial act of such a leader is a first and very much becomes a precedent that his successors follow. 2 His great love for roses as hygienic as children is a hearty-known fact. In fact he much compared the two, saying that children were like the buds in a garden.They should be carefully and fondly nurtured, as they were the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow. He felt that children are the real strength of a country and the very foundation of society. Most importantly he did not discriminate amidst he sexes and believed in big equal opportunities to girls and boys. Quite naturally, he was the be loved of all the children who gave him the endearing name of Coach Nehru. Mahatma Gandhi and Charlatan Nehru are internationally well-known person-to-personities, who had been venerated and respected by the intelligentsia. tenth of them were born in the nineteenth century and passed away in the twentieth century. The Mahatma was the leader and Nehru was the most devoted disciple of the Mahatma. Both of them were giants in their several(prenominal) fields of the work. The Mahatma was assassinated and Nehru died. Both of them lived the biblical figure, three score and ten. The Mahatma was the bring forth of the nation. Nehru was the builder of the nation. 3 Nehru first magazine met Mahatma Gandhi in 1916 and admired his utilisation in South Africa.When Gandhi started Straight in 1 919 against Reluctant, Nehru for the first time came into contact with the peasants (kinas) and this contact with the peasants influenced his later thought. He wrote, Looking at them (kinas) and their m isadventure and overflowing gratitude, was filled with shame and sorrow-shame at my own easy-going and comfortable life and our pretty politics of the city which moored this vast multitude of semi-naked sons and daughters of India. A new-sprung(prenominal) picture of India seemed to rise before me, naked, starving, crushed and utterly miserable. This experience with peasants indicated to Nehru the ground level to which the nationalist movement coincided with Sandhogs rise to prominence in the congress and this change Nehru consciousness of peasant India. Nehru played a significant role in the Non-Cooperation Movement launched in 1 921 , under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. A canonic question could be put here what was the influence of Gandhi upon Nehru during this period? Sandhogs deform on the religious and spiritual side of his movement was somewhat unfathomable to Nehru.Nehru with his modern, scientific and rational approach to life simply did not tattle the same languag e as Gandhi (1921). Nehru wrote tho we felt that we knew him quite well enough to realize that he was a great and singular man and a glorious leader, and having put our faith in him, we gave him an almost untenanted cheese, for the time being at least. For Nehru, the lesson and ethical side of Sandhogs Straight had greater appeal. Nehru did not accept non-violence as an absolute creed but he became convinced that against the background of Indians traditions, it was the right policy to follow.Sandhogs continuous jam on the necessity of worthy means being used to fulfil worthy ends deeply influenced Nehru. Sandhogs abhorrence of machinery and modern civilization had no event on Nehru, except to convince him and others that such ideas would have to be intemperately dealt with when independence was attained. 4 Gandhi and Nehru were completely different people as regards their genial status, age, way of thinking and individuality. There were always deep ideological differences between them. In their attitude on life, Nehru and Gandhi differed from each other.Nehru was absolutely secular and scientific whereas Gandhi was out and out a man of religion. For Gandhi, religion and morality constitute the whole of life. They are inseparable. He laid great stress on truth and nonviolence and expected the Congress to be instrumental for the moral regeneration of the country. Nehru attached much importance to moral values but not so much to religion. For Nehru, religion was a womans affair. He cherished the Congress to play role effectively in the political and economic sphere. Gandhi formulated the principle of trusteeship for the rich and the propertied class.He was of the opinion that as the rich did not require all their wealth for the satisfaction of their personal needs, they should utilize the surplus wealth for the benefit of the society at large. Nehru, though allows important place to private sector, he consider the Seminary system as a semifinal syste m which was out of date and a great hindrance to production and general progress. Gandhi described self-reliance as star of the essential ingredients of the individuals character. Charlatan Nehru made self-reliance the pivot around which the sinless program of community development revolved. Both Gandhi and Nehru were cosmopolitans.They stood for internationalism. Gandhi did not want India to roost isolated from the rest of the world. Charlatan rejoiced on the freedom struggle of the subject countries. Both Gandhi and Nehru were humanists. Both of them gave greater importance to human qualities than to political expediency. The guru as well as his sashay stood for the toiling humanity. Their hearts bled for the poor and mess trodden. There are many reasons as to why Nehru was drawn towards Gandhi. Nehru recognised the heroism and spirit of defiance of Gandhi. He also found that Sandhogs unique adhering and political action brought important results to the country.