Nehru writing in the third person about himself. November 1937 in a Calcutta journal. Quoted in nNehru: A Political Biography, M.Edwardes pg 245. Edwardes, M., & Penguin. (1973). Nehru: A political biography. Harmondsworth [etc.: Penguin Books.

...he has all the makings of a dictator in him—vast popularity, a strong will, energy, pride...and with all his love of the crowd, an intolerance of others and a certain contempt for the weak and inefficient....in normal times, he would just be an efficient...executive, but in this revolutionary epoch, Caesarism is always at the door, and is it not possible that Jawaharlal might fancy himself a Caesar? Therein lies the danger for Jawaharlal and India.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "...he has all the makings of a dictator in him—vast popularity, a strong will, energy, pride...and with all his love of the crowd, an intolerance of others and a certain contempt for the weak and inefficient....in normal times, he would just be an efficient...executive, but in this revolutionary epoch, Caesarism is always at the door, and is it not possible that Jawaharlal might fancy himself a Caesar? Therein lies the danger for Jawaharlal and India." in the context of "Nehru writing in the third person about himself. November 1937 in a Calcutta journal. Quoted in nNehru: A Political Biography, M.Edwardes pg 245. Edwardes, M., & Penguin. (1973). Nehru: A political biography. Harmondsworth [etc.: Penguin Books." 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.