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Mahatma Gandhi to Durga Das, when asked why he felt that Nehru (instead of Patel) should head the government. Attributed by Durga Das in Durga Das: India from Curzon to Nehru and After, p. 230, Also quoted in : The Nehru Epoch: From Democracy to Monocracy Dwarka Prasad Mishra, p 170 ; Living an Era, vol 2 Dwarka Prasad Mishra, p 145 ; India's Medieval and Modern Past Shankar Goyal, p 209. Ram Gopal: ‘Last Rites of Gandhism’, 1996; Elst, K. (2018). Why I killed the Mahatma: Uncovering Godse's defence. New Delhi : Rupa, 2018.
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Jawahar is the only Englishman in my camp.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Jawahar is the only Englishman in my camp." in the context of "Mahatma Gandhi to Durga Das, when asked why he felt that Nehru (instead of Patel) should head the government. Attributed by Durga Das in Durga Das: India from Curzon to Nehru and After, p. 230, Also quoted in : The Nehru Epoch: From Democracy to Monocracy Dwarka Prasad Mishra, p 170 ; Living an Era, vol 2 Dwarka Prasad Mishra, p 145 ; India's Medieval and Modern Past Shankar Goyal, p 209. Ram Gopal: ‘Last Rites of Gandhism’, 1996; Elst, K. (2018). Why I killed the Mahatma: Uncovering Godse's defence. New Delhi : Rupa, 2018." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

About Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was a central figure in India during the middle-third of the 20th-century. He was a principal leader of the Indian independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, Nehru served as the country's prime minister for 17 years.