Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
Compulsion destroys cooperation.
The British Prime Minster was supporting the partition of India so there would be an independent Muslim Pakistan which India had the power to do before they granted independence, Nehru told him that this would be against the wishes of the majority Hindus of India and therefore Attlee should reconsider. But to not have a Muslim independent state would mean compelling the Muslims to be in a unified country which they opposed. So while Nehru's point was well taken, there was no way that Attlee could do anything that would not involve compulsion of at least one of the two major factions in India, and as things would turn out, both sides felt compelled and limited their cooperation with each other and the British.
Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964, Prime Minister, India, Statement to British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Meeting in London, December 6, 1947
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Even into the 21st century, the problem was not solved and Muslims from Pakistan continue their futile but tragic terrorist tactics to try and acquire more territory from India." 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
He was echoing proposals that he made in the Delhi Emergency Committee that had been called to cope with the butchery and murder when the Hindus and Sikhs were trying to leave the areas that were to be part of Pakistan under the Partition and the retaliations against the Delhi Muslims who were trying to flee to the new Pakistan. Unfortunately, the Muslim leadership did not want such a truce as while the land had been partitioned, Indian Money, military equipment, and other resources were yet to be divided and the Muslim leaders who had been so successful playing the violence card to gain and independent Pakistan, did not want to give up that option in the remainder of the division of India. Also, it was not at all clear that the Muslim political leaders could even then control the mobs who they had already whipped up to violence.
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Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian independence activist and, subsequently, the first Prime Minister of India, as well as a central figure in Indian politics both before and after independence. He emerged as an eminent leader of the Indian independence movement, serving India as Prime Minister from its establishment in 1947 as an independent nation, until his death in 1964. He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community, while Indian children knew him better as Chacha Nehru (Hindi: Uncle Nehru).
