Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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 1/3 12 3. To UP Congress MLAs 1/3 13 4. At Firangi Mahal 1/3 19 5. Public Meeting 1/3 24 6. 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

(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 2/3 148 12. To A.K. Chanda: Congress Must Pay its Dues 5/3 149 13. To CPP: Speech 7/3 150 14. In Bombay: Speech to Congress Workers 11/3 151 15. To N. Sanjiva Reddy: N.G. Ranga's Resignation 11/3 153 16. To CPP: Speech 14/3 154 17. For CWC: Draft Resolution on Nyasaland and 15/3 166 Central African Federation 18. To CPP: Speech 16/3 167 19. To Indira Gandhi: Congress Must Pay its Dues 17/3 177 20. To A.K. Chanda: Congress Must Pay its Dues 17/3 177 21. To N. Sanjiva Reddy: Congress Must Pay its Dues 17/3 178 22. To PCC Officials: Speech I 17/3 179 23. To PCC Officials: Speech II 19/3 181 24. At Alwar:Speech to Rajasthan PCC Officials 20/3 186 25. In Delhi: Speech at Civic Reception 22/3 188 26. To Ramnarayan Chaudhary. 27/3 190 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

(iii) Delhi 31. To K. Ram: Land for Buddhist Dharamshala 7/3 194 32. To Brij Krishna Chandiwala: Goshala at Rajghat 21/3 195 33. To K. Ram: Jama Masjid Not Maintained 29/3 196 (iv) Jammu and Kashmir 34. To K.RS. Menon: Soviet Delegation to Kashmir 4/3 197 35. To Shankar Prasad: Avoid Corruption 5/3 198 36. To Bakhshi: Soviet Delegation and 6/3 199 Hammarskjold to Kashmir 37. To Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad: Dissidence 6/3 200 38. To K. Ram: Magray on Kashmir 7/3 203 39. To Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad: 18/3 203 Sheikh Abdullah's Defence 40. To Shankar Prasad: Sheikh Abdullah's Defence 18/3 204 41. To M.J. Desai: Begum Abdullah on Sheikh Abdullah 23/3 204 42. To Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah 25/3 205 (v) Kerala 43. To O. Pulla Reddi: Subsidizing Factory at Kozhikode 13/3 206 44. 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

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 216 54. To Partap Singh Kairon: Gurdwara Politics 16/3 216 55. To Tara Singh: Gurdwara Politics 19/3 217 56. To Jayaprakash Narayan: Gurdwara Politics 23/3 220 57. To Partap Singh Kairon: Betterment Levy Agitation 26/3 221 58. With Yadavendra Singh Till, 222 59. To GB. Pant: Gurdwara Politics 28/3 223 60. To Partap Singh Kairon: Gurdwara Politics 28/3 224 (x) Raj as than 61. To K. Ram: Accident at Bhilwara 11/3 224 62. 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 3/3 226 65. To Sampurnananad: Dissidence 3/3 230 66. To Sampurnanand: Congress Factionalism 19/3 230 67. To Charan Singh: On Resignation 21/3 231 68. To Syed Ali Zaheer: On Maulana Azad's Book 22/3 234 69. To Sampurnanand: Misreporting About 28/3 235 Charan Singh's Resignation 70. To Charan Singh: Misreporting on Resignation 28/3 235 viii

(xii) West Bengal 71. To B.C. Roy: Supreme Court Reference to Berubari 11/3 236 72. 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 2/3 239 76. To Gulzarilal Nanda: Ram Narayan Chaudhary's 2/3 240 Hunger Strikes 77. To Vishnu Sahay: Slum Clearance 4/3 241 78. To Rajendra Prasad: Reorganising Community 5/3 242 Development Ministry 79. To Amrit Kaur: M.O. Mathai Case 5/3 243 80. To K. Ram: Gopal Godse's Release 6/3 244 81. In the Lok Sabha: Grants to Art 6/3 245 82. To S.K. Patil: Inauguration Cuts into Work 6/3 246 83. To Vishnu Sahay: Irritation with Ex-post-facto 6/3 247 Approvals 84. To B.C. Roy: Pension Delayed 6/3 247 85. To Onkar Nath: Resigning from Trust 7/3 248 86. To Vishnu Sahay: No Overruling the UPSC 11/3 248 87. To L. Achaw Singh: IFS (B) Rules 13/3 249 88. To K. Ram: Misusing Nehru's Name 19/3 249 89. To Krishna Hutheesing: Visit to Indonesia 19/3 250 90. To S. Dutt: Palitana's Objectionable Behaviour 20/3 250 91. To MEA: Training IFS Probationers 20/3 251 92. To B. Shiva Rao: Pensions and Pay Commission 21/3 251 93. To Vishnu Sahay: Pensions and Pay Commission 21/3 252 94. To Sampurnanand 21/3 252 95. To Satya Narayan Sinha: On Kansari Haider 23/3 253 96. To GB. Pant: Security Arrangements for 25/3 254 the Prime Minister 97. To Fathema Ismail: Help to Differently Enabled 26/3 257 ix

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. 4/3 102. To B.C. Roy: Refugees from East Pakistan 7/3 103. 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 16/3 106.- 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 21/3 110. To B.C. Roy: Refugees from East Pakistan 26/3 111. To K. Ram: Refugees in Delhi 28/3 (e) Language 112. In Bombay: Speech 9/3 113. At Marathi Library: Language and Literacy 10/3 114. 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

117. To B.V. Keskar: News Agencies in India 7/3 278 118. To K. Ram: Making Mahatma Gandhi film 13/3 279 119. To G.B. Pant: Scurrilous Publications 19/3 279 120. To N.R. Pillai: Blitz's Insult to American Ambassador 21/3 280 III. DEVELOPMENT (a) Economy 121. To V.T. Krishnamachari: Developing Garhwal 6/3 282 122. To FICCI: Contours of Indian Economy 7/3 282 123. To Morarji Desai: Perspective Planning 18/3 297 124. To A.K. Chanda: A Corporation to Coordinate 19/3 299 Public Enterprises 125. To V.T. Krishnamachari: Preparing the Third Plan 21/3 300 126. 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 2/3 301 128. To Bharat Sewak Samaj: Speech I 8/3 302 129. To Bharat Sewak Samaj: Speech II 8/3 319 130. At Bombay Bal Bhavan: Slum Children's Education 9/3 341 131. Malaria Conference: Inauguration Address 16/3 341 132. 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 22/3 349 135. To K. Ram: Cooperative Departments 22/3 350 136. To Vishnu Sahay: Cooperators to Discuss Nagpur 27/3 350 Congress Resolutions 137. In the Lok Sabha: Co-operative Farming 28/3 351 138. To Indira Gandhi: Training for Development 28/3 365 139. To S. M. Banerjee: Committees Cause Confusion 30/3 365 xi

(c) Industry 140. To B.P. Chaliha: Assam Refinery and 4/3 366 Rumanian Experts 141. To Manubhai M. Shah: Raw Film Project 5/3 367 142. 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 17/3 376 145. To K.D. Malaviya: Locating a Pipe Fabricating Mill 18/3 377 146. To Louis Mountbatten.Oil Prospecting in India 21/3 378 147. To K.D. Malaviya: Buying Oil India Shares 23/3 381 148. 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 3/3 382 151. To A.P. Jain: Finances for Laboratory at Almora 3/3 383 152. To GB. Pant: Food Prices in Madhya Pradesh 20/3 384 153. To A.P. Jain: Cooperatives and Bureaucracy 25/3 386 154. To Sampurnanand: Cooperatives and Bureaucracy 25/3 386 155. To A.P. Jain: Implementing Nagpur Resolution 30/3 387 (f) Education 156. Olympic Games 6/3 388 157. To Nardev Shastri Vedtirth: Visiting Gurukul Kangri 6/3 388 158. To D.V. Subba Sastry: Free Education 19/3 389 159. 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

161. To K.L. Shrimali: Boy Scouts and Girl Guides 25/3 391 162. To K.L. Shrimali: Spiritual Values in Education 28/3 392 163. Youth Carnival: Inauguration Address 28/3 393 164. To Prithvi Singh: Physical Culture Institute 29/3 394 165. To K.L. Shrimali: Ensuring Discipline 30/3 396 in Universities 166. To Anthony S. de Mello: Sports Facilities 31/3 397 167. 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 6/3 400 170. To Krishna Kripalani: Attending Soviet 7/3 400 Writers' Congress 171. At AIFACS: On Architecture 17/3 401 172. To Humayun Kabir : Archaeological Artifacts 19/3 407 Going Abroad 173. For K.R. Kripalani: Letter of Introduction 23/3 407 174. 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 10/3 410 177. In the Lok Sabha: Organising Scientific Research - 16/3 415 178. Vishnu Sahay: Mathematical Research 19/3. 424 179. To M. Visvesvaraya 25/3 425 180. To Vishnu Sahay: Attracting Indian Scientists " 26/3 425 from Abroad 181. To K.D. Malaviya: Raising Scientists' Salaries 29/3 426 xiii

IV. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (a) General 182. To Asoka Mehta: Indo-Ceylon Study of 2/3 427 Joint Problems 183. East African Cultural Group 3/3 428 184. To M. J. Desai: Indo-Ceylonese Study of 7/3 429 Joint Problems 185. In the Lok Sabha: MEA Grants 16/3 430 186. In the Lok Sabha 17/3 431 187. 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 11/3 450 189. To Subimal Dutt: Inaccurate Chinese Maps 20/3 450 190. To Chou En-lai: Indo-Tibetan Border 22/1 451 191. In the Lok Sabha: The Situation in Tibet 23/3 455' 192. To Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: The Situation in Tibet 26/3 459 193. To N.R. Pillai: Nuclear Tests, Tibet and 26/3 460 Other Matters 194. To Subimal Dutt: Tibetan Questions 29/3 460 195. To Apa B. Pant: Sikkim and Tibet 30/3 461 196. In the Lok Sabha: Refugees from Tibet 30/3 462 197. In the Lok Sabha: Tibet 30/3 469 198. To Rajendra Prasad: On Tibet 30/3 479 199. Rumours about Tibet 31/3 481 (ii) Pakistan 200. In the Lok Sabha: Pilgrims from Pakistan 3/3 481 201. In the Lok Sabha 3/3 482 202. In the Lok Sabha: Indians kidnapped by Pakistanis 3/3 485 xiv

203. In the Rajya Sabha: US-Pakistan 6/3 489 Military Pact 204. In the Lok Sabha: US-Pakistan Defence Pact 6/3 492 205. To N. R. Pillai, S. Dutt, M. J. Desai: US-Pakistan 6/3 495 Military Pact 206. To Subimal Dutt: US-Pakistan Military Pact 6/3 496 207. To MEA: Border Incidents with East Pakistan 12/3 496 208. In the Lok Sabha: Border Incidents with Pakistan 12/3 499 209. In the Lok Sabha: US Military Alliances 13/3 504 210. In the Lok Sabha 16/3 509 211. ToS.A. Mehdi: Secret Session on US-Military Pact 19/3 512 212. In the Lok Sabha: Border Incidents 26/3 513 with East Pakistan (iii) Ceylon 213. To S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike: Colombo Conference 3/3 519 214. In the Lok Sabha: Persons of Indian Origin 6/3 520 in Ceylon 215. To M.S. Aney: Ceylon Workers Welfare 28/3 524 216. 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.. 20/3 527 219. To Thomas R. Stone 30/3 527 (vi) South Africa 220. To Radhakrishnan: Visit to South Africa 25/3 528 221. To M.J. Desai: Studying Africa 30/3 529 xv

iv\ (vii) Ghana 222. To Kwame Nkrumah 17/3 530 223. To Kwame Nkrumah 20/3 531 (viii) Iraq 224. ToSubimal Dutt: No Evacuation of Indians Iraq 12/3 532 225. To N.R. Pillai and M.J. Desai 19/3 532 (ix) Other Countries 226. To Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra 2/3 533 227. To Alberto Lleras Camargo: Diplomatic Relations 12/3 534 with Columbia 228. To M.J. Desai:The Central African Federation 14/3 535 229. In the Lok Sabha: Royal Air Force Station 17/3 536 in Maldives 230. To Roy McCorkel: World Cooperative Bank. 19/3 538 231. 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 27/3 539 233. 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 5/3 541 236. To V.R. Bhatt 5/3 542 237. 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 7/3 543 242. To Hal Broun Morison: Harrow 7/3 544 241. To Private Secretary: No Truck with Nehru. 13/3 544 Biography Committee. xvi

242. To Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 15/3 545 243. To Har Inder Singh Bahadur: Drunken Maharaja 16/3 547 244. To Nathan M. Pusey: Honorary Degree 16/3 548 from Harvard 245. To Asoka Mehta: Passport for Narayan Dutt Tiwari 18/3 549 246. To Richard J. Walsh Jr: Abridged Edition 21/3 549 of The Discovery of India 247. To Louis Mountbatten 21/3 550 248. To Umesh Mishra: Visiting Indology Institute 23/3 551 at Allahabad 249. To Mihir Sen: Helping Out 25/3 552 250. To Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 26/3 553 251. To R. R. Diwakar: Abridged Edition 29/3 554 of Nehru's Works 252. To Private Secretary 30/3 555 253. To the Managing Editor of World Christian Digest 30/3 555 VI. APPENDICES 1. G B. Pant to Chief Ministers (2/4/1956) 556 2. Chou En-lai to Nehru 23/1 557 3. Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra to Nehru 14/2 560 4. B.C. Roy to Nehru 1/3 561 5. GM. Sadiq to Nehru 3/3 562 6. S.M. Abdullah to Nehru 5/3 564 7. G M. Bakshi to Nehru 5/3 567 8. Tara Singh to Nehru 5/3 572 9. H.J. Bhabha's Note on Mathematical Research 9/3 575 10. I.J. Bahadur Singh to R.K. Tandon 10/3 577 11. B.C. Roy to Nehru 11-12/3 580 12. Tara Singh to Nehru 14/3 581 13. Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri to Nehru 15/3 582 14. MEA to Political Officer, Gangtok, and 15/3 584 Consul General India, Lhasa 15. Naushir Bharucha on Atomic Energy Research 16/3 585 16. M.S. Aney to Nehru 18/3 591 17. B.C. Roy to Nehru 19/3 593 xvii

18. Govind Das to Nehru 20/3 593 19. Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of China 22/3 596 to the Indian Ambassador 20. Mihir Sen to Nehru 22/3 597 21. B.C. Roy to Nehru 23/3 598 22. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit to Nehru 23/3 599 23. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit to Nehru 23/3 600 24. Tara Singh's Note on Governmental Interference Undated 601 25. D.R. Gadgil's Note on Cooperatives March 603 26. J.S. Mehta to Indian Representatives Abroad 2/4 607 Glossary 611 Index 615 Political Map of India xviii