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Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches 1949 - 1953 (1954), p. 235
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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

What It Means

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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.