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Jawaharlal Nehru, letter to the Punjab Chief Minister, February 11, 1948, Selected Works Of Jawaharlal Nehru, 2nd series, Vol. 5, p. 53, cited in Sucheta Mahajan, Independence and Partition, p. 320. Quoted in Mridula Mukherjee. “Sectional President’s Address: COMMUNAL THREAT AND SECULAR RESISTANCE.” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, vol. 71, (2010-2011). Also in "After Gandhi's Assassination, Nehru Saw the Hindu Right as a Threat to the Indian State", The Wire, Jan. 30, 2023.
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These people have the blood of Mahatma Gandhi on their hands and pious disclaimers and dissociation now have no meaning.

— Jawaharlal Nehru on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

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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.