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1 K A 2013/7148, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru SECOND SERIES Volume Forty Seven (1-31 March 1959) Editor MADHAVAN K. PALAT Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund New Delhi

2 CONTENTS Foreword Editorial Note List of Illustrations xix xxi xxiii No. Item Date Page I. GENERAL (a) Chief Ministers 1. To Chief Ministers 25/3 1 (b) Speeches (i) Lucknow 2. At Sikandar Bagh: Learn While You Play 1/ To UP Congress MLAs 1/ At Firangi Mahal 1/ Public Meeting 1/ At Lucknow University 2/3 31 (ii) Bhilwara 7. Public Meeting 8/3 48 (iii) Bombay 8. Public Meeting 9/3 77 (iv) Alwar 9. Public Meeting 20/3 103

3 (c) "Press Conference 10. At Delhi 6/3 126 II. POLITICS " (a) Indian National Congress 11. To N. Sanjiva Reddy: Congress Must Pay its Dues 2/ To A.K. Chanda: Congress Must Pay its Dues 5/ To CPP: Speech 7/ In Bombay: Speech to Congress Workers 11/ To N. Sanjiva Reddy: N.G. Ranga's Resignation 11/ To CPP: Speech 14/ For CWC: Draft Resolution on Nyasaland and 15/3 166 Central African Federation 18. To CPP: Speech 16/ To Indira Gandhi: Congress Must Pay its Dues 17/ To A.K. Chanda: Congress Must Pay its Dues 17/ To N. Sanjiva Reddy: Congress Must Pay its Dues 17/ To PCC Officials: Speech I 17/ To PCC Officials: Speech II 19/ At Alwar:Speech to Rajasthan PCC Officials 20/ In Delhi: Speech at Civic Reception 22/ To Ramnarayan Chaudhary. 27/ To Asok K. Chanda 29/3 191 (b) States (i) Andhra Pradesh 28. To N. Sanjiva Reddy: Dissdence 18/3 192 (ii) Bihar 29. To General Secretary, AICC: Selecting Congress 16/3 193 Office-Bearers 30. To Sri Krishna Sinha: D. N. Tiwary's Grievance 30/3 194 vi

4 (iii) Delhi 31. To K. Ram: Land for Buddhist Dharamshala 7/ To Brij Krishna Chandiwala: Goshala at Rajghat 21/ To K. Ram: Jama Masjid Not Maintained 29/3 196 (iv) Jammu and Kashmir 34. To K.RS. Menon: Soviet Delegation to Kashmir 4/ To Shankar Prasad: Avoid Corruption 5/ To Bakhshi: Soviet Delegation and 6/3 199 Hammarskjold to Kashmir 37. To Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad: Dissidence 6/ To K. Ram: Magray on Kashmir 7/ To Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad: 18/3 203 Sheikh Abdullah's Defence 40. To Shankar Prasad: Sheikh Abdullah's Defence 18/ To M.J. Desai: Begum Abdullah on Sheikh Abdullah 23/ To Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah 25/3 205 (v) Kerala 43. To O. Pulla Reddi: Subsidizing Factory at Kozhikode 13/ In the Lok Sabha: Central Aid to Kerala 16/3 207 (vi) Madhya Pradesh 45. To K.N. Katju: Dissidence 27/3 208 (vii) Madras 46. To K. Kamaraj: Annoying Security Arrangements 21/3 209 (viii) The North East 47. To Saiyid Fazl Ali: British Press, Tea Planters, 3/3 212 and Naga Militants vii

5 48. To S. Dutt: British Press, Tea Planters, and 3/3 213 Naga Militants 49. To Saiyid Fazl Ali: British Press, Tea Planters, 4/3 213 and Naga Militants 50. To Saiyid Fazl Ali: British Press, Tea Planters, 6/3 214 and Naga Militants 51. To Saiyid Fazl Ali: British Press, Tea Planters, 11/3 214 and Naga Militants 52. To K. Ram: Cultural Institutions in Imphal 18/3 215 (ix) Punjab 53. To Tara Singh: Gurdwara Politics IB To Partap Singh Kairon: Gurdwara Politics 16/ To Tara Singh: Gurdwara Politics 19/ To Jayaprakash Narayan: Gurdwara Politics 23/ To Partap Singh Kairon: Betterment Levy Agitation 26/ With Yadavendra Singh Till, To GB. Pant: Gurdwara Politics 28/ To Partap Singh Kairon: Gurdwara Politics 28/3 224 (x) Raj as than 61. To K. Ram: Accident at Bhilwara 11/ To Mohanlal Sukhadia: Communalism in Congress 25/3 225 (xi) Uttar Pradesh 63. To Sampurnanand: Helping Students Pay 3/3 226 Examination Fees 64. To Algurai Shastri: Dissidence 3/ To Sampurnananad: Dissidence 3/ To Sampurnanand: Congress Factionalism 19/ To Charan Singh: On Resignation 21/ To Syed Ali Zaheer: On Maulana Azad's Book 22/ To Sampurnanand: Misreporting About 28/3 235 Charan Singh's Resignation 70. To Charan Singh: Misreporting on Resignation 28/3 235 viii

6 (xii) West Bengal 71. To B.C. Roy: Supreme Court Reference to Berubari 11/ To B.C. Roy: Protecting the Border 19/3 236 (c) Administration 73. To Vishnu Sahay: Too Many Conferences 2/3 237 Disrupt Work 74. To Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim: Damodar 2/3 239 Valley Corporation 75. To K. Ram: Honours and Lodgings 2/ To Gulzarilal Nanda: Ram Narayan Chaudhary's 2/3 240 Hunger Strikes 77. To Vishnu Sahay: Slum Clearance 4/ To Rajendra Prasad: Reorganising Community 5/3 242 Development Ministry 79. To Amrit Kaur: M.O. Mathai Case 5/ To K. Ram: Gopal Godse's Release 6/ In the Lok Sabha: Grants to Art 6/ To S.K. Patil: Inauguration Cuts into Work 6/ To Vishnu Sahay: Irritation with Ex-post-facto 6/3 247 Approvals 84. To B.C. Roy: Pension Delayed 6/ To Onkar Nath: Resigning from Trust 7/ To Vishnu Sahay: No Overruling the UPSC 11/ To L. Achaw Singh: IFS (B) Rules 13/ To K. Ram: Misusing Nehru's Name 19/ To Krishna Hutheesing: Visit to Indonesia 19/ To S. Dutt: Palitana's Objectionable Behaviour 20/ To MEA: Training IFS Probationers 20/ To B. Shiva Rao: Pensions and Pay Commission 21/ To Vishnu Sahay: Pensions and Pay Commission 21/ To Sampurnanand 21/ To Satya Narayan Sinha: On Kansari Haider 23/ To GB. Pant: Security Arrangements for 25/3 254 the Prime Minister 97. To Fathema Ismail: Help to Differently Enabled 26/3 257 ix

7 No. Item 98. To Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: Answering Auditors 99. To D.P. Karmarkar: AIIMS Politics 100. To Lai Bahadur Shastri: Engineers, not Bureaucrats, to run Engineering Projects Date 27/3 28/3 30/3 (d) Social Groups 101. To M.J. Desai: Refugees from East Pakistan. 4/ To B.C. Roy: Refugees from East Pakistan 7/ To G.B. Pant and A.K.Sen: Regulating 8/3 Religious Organisations 104. To Bajrang Bahadur Singh of Bhadri: 14/3 Muslims and Refugees 105. To B.C. Roy: Refugees from East Pakistan 16/ To Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri:Refugees 17/3 from East Pakistan 107. To Mehr Chand Khanna: No East Delhi 20/3 Refugees in Delhi 108. To Bajrang Bahadur Singh of Bhadri: 21/3 Refugees and Muslims 109. To B.C. Roy: Refugees from East Pakistan 21/ To B.C. Roy: Refugees from East Pakistan 26/ To K. Ram: Refugees in Delhi 28/3 (e) Language 112. In Bombay: Speech 9/ At Marathi Library: Language and Literacy 10/ To Govind Das: Scientific Vocabulary in Hindi 20/3 (f) Judiciary 115. To K. Ram: Strictures on Chairman of 22/3 Punjab National Bank (g) Media 116. To B.V. Keskar: News Agencies in India 5/3

8 117. To B.V. Keskar: News Agencies in India 7/ To K. Ram: Making Mahatma Gandhi film 13/ To G.B. Pant: Scurrilous Publications 19/ To N.R. Pillai: Blitz's Insult to American Ambassador 21/3 280 III. DEVELOPMENT (a) Economy 121. To V.T. Krishnamachari: Developing Garhwal 6/ To FICCI: Contours of Indian Economy 7/ To Morarji Desai: Perspective Planning 18/ To A.K. Chanda: A Corporation to Coordinate 19/3 299 Public Enterprises 125. To V.T. Krishnamachari: Preparing the Third Plan 21/ To Planning Commission: A Socialist Third Plan 30/3 300 (b) Community Development and Social Welfare 127. To N. Sanjiva Reddy: Need for Local Leadership 2/ To Bharat Sewak Samaj: Speech I 8/ To Bharat Sewak Samaj: Speech II 8/ At Bombay Bal Bhavan: Slum Children's Education 9/ Malaria Conference: Inauguration Address 16/ To Social Welfare Boards Conference: 18/3 343 Inauguration Address 133. To Baij Nath Kapur: Villages have Priority 18/3 349 over Notables 134. To N.G Ranga:Malaise in Cooperative Departments 22/ To K. Ram: Cooperative Departments 22/ To Vishnu Sahay: Cooperators to Discuss Nagpur 27/3 350 Congress Resolutions 137. In the Lok Sabha: Co-operative Farming 28/ To Indira Gandhi: Training for Development 28/ To S. M. Banerjee: Committees Cause Confusion 30/3 365 xi

9 (c) Industry 140. To B.P. Chaliha: Assam Refinery and 4/3 366 Rumanian Experts 141. To Manubhai M. Shah: Raw Film Project 5/ To All India Manufacturers' Organisation: 11/3 367 Inauguration Address 143. To N.R. Pillai: Supporting FICCI for Afro-Asian 16/3 376 Economic Conference 144. To Jagjivan Ram: Railway Workshops Too Expensive 17/ To K.D. Malaviya: Locating a Pipe Fabricating Mill 18/ To Louis Mountbatten.Oil Prospecting in India 21/ To K.D. Malaviya: Buying Oil India Shares 23/ To V. T. Krishanamachari: Building Roads 31/3 381 to End Cement Glut (d) Labour 149. To GB. Pant: Domestic Workers 16/3 382 (e) Food and Agriculture 150. To Basiswar Sen: Finances for Laboratory at Almora 3/ To A.P. Jain: Finances for Laboratory at Almora 3/ To GB. Pant: Food Prices in Madhya Pradesh 20/ To A.P. Jain: Cooperatives and Bureaucracy 25/ To Sampurnanand: Cooperatives and Bureaucracy 25/ To A.P. Jain: Implementing Nagpur Resolution 30/3 387 (f) Education 156. Olympic Games 6/ To Nardev Shastri Vedtirth: Visiting Gurukul Kangri 6/ To D.V. Subba Sastry: Free Education 19/ To K.L. Shrimali and Humayun Kabir: Acquiring 21/3 390 India Office Archives 160. To Humayun Kabir: Demanding India Office 23/3 390 Archives xii

10 161. To K.L. Shrimali: Boy Scouts and Girl Guides 25/ To K.L. Shrimali: Spiritual Values in Education 28/ Youth Carnival: Inauguration Address 28/ To Prithvi Singh: Physical Culture Institute 29/ To K.L. Shrimali: Ensuring Discipline 30/3 396 in Universities 166. To Anthony S. de Mello: Sports Facilities 31/ To V.T. Krishnamachari: Help to Backward States 31/3 398 (g) Culture 168. To Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir: Sahitya Akademi 3/3 399 Prizes 169. To Humayun Kabir: The Three Akademies 6/ To Krishna Kripalani: Attending Soviet 7/3 400 Writers' Congress 171. At AIFACS: On Architecture 17/ To Humayun Kabir : Archaeological Artifacts 19/3 407 Going Abroad 173. For K.R. Kripalani: Letter of Introduction 23/ To K. C. Choudhuri:Funds for Tagore Jayanti 31/3 408 (h) Science and Technology 175. In the Lok Sabha: Nuclear Science Training 3/3 409 in the USA 176. Bombay IIT: Sciene and Citizenship 10/ In the Lok Sabha: Organising Scientific Research - 16/ Vishnu Sahay: Mathematical Research 19/ To M. Visvesvaraya 25/ To Vishnu Sahay: Attracting Indian Scientists " 26/3 425 from Abroad 181. To K.D. Malaviya: Raising Scientists' Salaries 29/3 426 xiii

11 IV. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (a) General 182. To Asoka Mehta: Indo-Ceylon Study of 2/3 427 Joint Problems 183. East African Cultural Group 3/ To M. J. Desai: Indo-Ceylonese Study of 7/3 429 Joint Problems 185. In the Lok Sabha: MEA Grants 16/ In the Lok Sabha 17/ To N. R. Pillai, S. Dutt, M. J. Desai: Talk with 18/3 448 Dag Hammarskjold (b) Bilateral Relations (i) China and Tibet 188. In the Lok Sabha: Acquisition of Properties at Lhasa 11/ To Subimal Dutt: Inaccurate Chinese Maps 20/ To Chou En-lai: Indo-Tibetan Border 22/ In the Lok Sabha: The Situation in Tibet 23/3 455' 192. To Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: The Situation in Tibet 26/ To N.R. Pillai: Nuclear Tests, Tibet and 26/3 460 Other Matters 194. To Subimal Dutt: Tibetan Questions 29/ To Apa B. Pant: Sikkim and Tibet 30/ In the Lok Sabha: Refugees from Tibet 30/ In the Lok Sabha: Tibet 30/ To Rajendra Prasad: On Tibet 30/ Rumours about Tibet 31/3 481 (ii) Pakistan 200. In the Lok Sabha: Pilgrims from Pakistan 3/ In the Lok Sabha 3/ In the Lok Sabha: Indians kidnapped by Pakistanis 3/3 485 xiv

12 203. In the Rajya Sabha: US-Pakistan 6/3 489 Military Pact 204. In the Lok Sabha: US-Pakistan Defence Pact 6/ To N. R. Pillai, S. Dutt, M. J. Desai: US-Pakistan 6/3 495 Military Pact 206. To Subimal Dutt: US-Pakistan Military Pact 6/ To MEA: Border Incidents with East Pakistan 12/ In the Lok Sabha: Border Incidents with Pakistan 12/ In the Lok Sabha: US Military Alliances 13/ In the Lok Sabha 16/ ToS.A. Mehdi: Secret Session on US-Military Pact 19/ In the Lok Sabha: Border Incidents 26/3 513 with East Pakistan (iii) Ceylon 213. To S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike: Colombo Conference 3/ In the Lok Sabha: Persons of Indian Origin 6/3 520 in Ceylon 215. To M.S. Aney: Ceylon Workers Welfare 28/ To Rajendra Prasad: Visit to Ceylon 31/3 524 (iv) UK 217. To Harold Macmillan 29/3 525 (v) USA 218. To M.C. Chagla.. 20/ To Thomas R. Stone 30/3 527 (vi) South Africa 220. To Radhakrishnan: Visit to South Africa 25/ To M.J. Desai: Studying Africa 30/3 529 xv

13 iv\ (vii) Ghana 222. To Kwame Nkrumah 17/ To Kwame Nkrumah 20/3 531 (viii) Iraq 224. ToSubimal Dutt: No Evacuation of Indians Iraq 12/ To N.R. Pillai and M.J. Desai 19/3 532 (ix) Other Countries 226. To Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra 2/ To Alberto Lleras Camargo: Diplomatic Relations 12/3 534 with Columbia 228. To M.J. Desai:The Central African Federation 14/ In the Lok Sabha: Royal Air Force Station 17/3 536 in Maldives 230. To Roy McCorkel: World Cooperative Bank. 19/ To C.P.N. Singh: Buddha Jayanti Celebrations 23/3 538 in Japan 232. To N.R. Pillai, Subimal Dutt and M.J. Desai: Laos 27/ To R.H. Abdul Kadar: Bandung Pledges Broken 28/3 540 V. MISCELLANEOUS 234. To Robert F. Goheen: Honorary Degree 2/3 541 from Princeton 235. To G Ramchandran: Meeting Martin Luther King 5/ To V.R. Bhatt 5/ To Syed Mahmud: No Time for 5/3 542 Loquacious Persons 238. To Private Secretary: No Portrait of Annie 7/3 543 Besant in Central Hall 239. To K. Srinivasan 7/ To Hal Broun Morison: Harrow 7/ To Private Secretary: No Truck with Nehru. 13/3 544 Biography Committee. xvi

14 242. To Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 15/ To Har Inder Singh Bahadur: Drunken Maharaja 16/ To Nathan M. Pusey: Honorary Degree 16/3 548 from Harvard 245. To Asoka Mehta: Passport for Narayan Dutt Tiwari 18/ To Richard J. Walsh Jr: Abridged Edition 21/3 549 of The Discovery of India 247. To Louis Mountbatten 21/ To Umesh Mishra: Visiting Indology Institute 23/3 551 at Allahabad 249. To Mihir Sen: Helping Out 25/ To Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 26/ To R. R. Diwakar: Abridged Edition 29/3 554 of Nehru's Works 252. To Private Secretary 30/ To the Managing Editor of World Christian Digest 30/3 555 VI. APPENDICES 1. G B. Pant to Chief Ministers (2/4/1956) Chou En-lai to Nehru 23/ Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra to Nehru 14/ B.C. Roy to Nehru 1/ GM. Sadiq to Nehru 3/ S.M. Abdullah to Nehru 5/ G M. Bakshi to Nehru 5/ Tara Singh to Nehru 5/ H.J. Bhabha's Note on Mathematical Research 9/ I.J. Bahadur Singh to R.K. Tandon 10/ B.C. Roy to Nehru 11-12/ Tara Singh to Nehru 14/ Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri to Nehru 15/ MEA to Political Officer, Gangtok, and 15/3 584 Consul General India, Lhasa 15. Naushir Bharucha on Atomic Energy Research 16/ M.S. Aney to Nehru 18/ B.C. Roy to Nehru 19/3 593 xvii

15 18. Govind Das to Nehru 20/ Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of China 22/3 596 to the Indian Ambassador 20. Mihir Sen to Nehru 22/ B.C. Roy to Nehru 23/ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit to Nehru 23/ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit to Nehru 23/ Tara Singh's Note on Governmental Interference Undated D.R. Gadgil's Note on Cooperatives March J.S. Mehta to Indian Representatives Abroad 2/4 607 Glossary 611 Index 615 Political Map of India xviii

RAJYA SABHA THURSDAY, THE 9 TH AUGUST, (The Rajya Sabha met in the Parliament House at a.m.)

RAJYA SABHA THURSDAY, THE 9 TH AUGUST, 2001 (The Rajya Sabha met in the Parliament House at 11-00 a.m.) 1. Homage to martyrs of the Quit India Movement The Chairman made a reference to the Quit India Movement