Nehru's 97 Major Blunders (Revised & Unabridged to 127 Major Blunders) [3 ed.] 1502729940

But for a series of major blunders by Nehru across the spectrum—it would not be an exaggeration to say that he blundered

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Nehru's 97 Major Blunders (Revised & Unabridged to 127 Major Blunders) [3 ed.]
 1502729940

Table of contents :
Preface
A Note on Citations & Bibliography
1. Pre-Independence Blunders
Blunder–1 : Usurping Congress Presidentship in 1929
Blunder–2 : Setting Jinnah on Path to Pakistan
Blunder–3 : Scoring Self-Goal—Ministry Resignations, 1939
Blunder–4 : Leg-up to Jinnah & the Muslim League (AIML)
Blunder–5 : Assam’s Security Compromised
Blunder–6 : Nehru’s Undemocratic Elevation as the First PM
Blunder–7 : Aborted ‘Cabinet Mission Plan’ for United India
Blunder–8 : NWFP Blunder 1946
Blunder–9 : Making Jews out of Hindu Sindhis
Blunder–10 : Giving Away 55 Crores to Pakistan
Blunder–11 : Pre-Independence Dynasty Promotion
Blunder–12 : What Really Led to India’s Independence?
Blunder–13 : British Jails: Nehru/Top-Gandhians as VIPs vs. Others
Blunder–14 : Clueless on the Roots of Partition & Pakistan
Blunder–15 : Unplanned & Grossly Mismanaged Partition
Blunder–16 : No Worthwhile Policy Formulations!
2. Integration of the Princely States
Blunder–17 : Independent India dependent upon the British!
Blunder–18 : Nehru Refused J&K Accession when Offered!
Blunder–19 : Allowing Kashmir to be almost Lost
Blunder–20 : Unconditional J&K Accession Made Conditional
Blunder–21 : Internationalisation of the Kashmir Issue
Blunder–22 : Inept Handling of the J&K Issue in the UN
Blunder–23 : PoK thanks to Nehru
Blunder–24 : Nehru’s Shocking Callousness in J&K
Blunder–25 : Article-370 thanks to Nehru
Blunder–26 : Article 35A for J&K, Again thanks to Nehru
Blunder–27 : Nehru’s Blood Brother Who Deceived
Blunder–28 : Wanting Maharaja to Lick his Boots
Blunder–29 : Kashmiri Pandits vs. Kashmiri Pandits
Blunder–30 : Sidelining the One Who Could have Tackled J&K
Blunder–31 : Junagadh: Sardar Patel vs. Nehru–Mountbatten
Blunder–32 : Would-have-been Pakistan-II (Hyderabad)
3. External Security
Blunder–33 : Erasure of Tibet as a Nation
Blunder–34 : Panchsheel—Selling Tibet; Harming Self
Blunder–35 : Not Settling Boundary Dispute with China
Blunder–36 : The Himalayan Blunder: India-China War
Blunder–37 : Criminal Neglect of Defence & External Security
Blunder–38 : Politicisation of the Army
Blunder–39 : Anti Armed-Forces
Blunder–40 : Lethargic Intelligence Machinery & No Planning
Blunder–41 : Suppressing Truth
Blunder–42 : Himalayan Blunders, but No Accountability
Blunder–43 : Delayed Liberation of Goa
Blunder–44 : Nehru’s NO to Nuclear Arms
Blunder–45 : No Settlement with Pakistan
Blunder–46 : Responsible for 1965-War too, in a way
Blunder–47 : International Record in Insecure Borders
4. Foreign Policy
Blunder–48 : Nehru–Liaquat Pact 1950
Blunder–49 : Letting Go of Gwadar
Blunder–50 : Indus Water Treaty—Himalayan Blunder
Blunder–51 : No Initiative on Sri Lankan Tamil Problem
Blunder–52 : Erroneous Nehru-Era Map
Blunder–53 : Advocating China’s UNSC Membership at Our Cost
Blunder–54 : Rebuffing Israel, the Friend-in-Need
Blunder–55 : Neglecting Southeast Asia
Blunder–56 : India vs. the US & the West
Blunder–57 : ‘Non-Aligned’ with National Interests
Blunder–58 : Foreign to Foreign Policy
5. Internal Security
Blunder–59 : Compounding Difficulties in Assam
Blunder–60 : Neglect of the Northeast
Blunder–61 : Ignoring Illegal Proselytization
Blunder–62 : Ungoverned Areas
Blunder–63 : Insecurity of the Vulnerable Sections
6. Economy
Blunder–64 : Grinding Poverty & Terrible Living Conditions
Blunder–65 : Throttled Industrialisation
Blunder–66 : Neglect of Agriculture
Blunder–67 : Builder of ‘Modern’ India
Blunder–68 : Pathetic India vs. Other Countries
Blunder–69 : Nehruvian (and NOT ‘Hindu’) Rate of Growth
Blunder–70 : Nehru’s Socialism: The ‘God’ that Failed
7. Misgovernance
Blunder–71 : Debilitating Babudom & Criminal-Justice System
Blunder–72 : That Strange Indian Animal: VIP & VVIP
Blunder–73 : Corruption in the “Good” Old Days
Blunder–74 : Nepotism in the “Good” Old Days
Blunder–75 : Nehru & Casteism
Blunder–76 : Messy Reorganisation of States
Blunder–77 : Poor Leadership & Administration
Blunder–78 : Squandering Once-in-a-lifetime Opportunity
8. Educational & Cultural Mismanagement
Blunder–79 : Neglect of Universal Education
Blunder–80 : Messing Up the Language Issue
Blunder–81 : Promoting Urdu & Persian-Arabic Script
Blunder–82 : Neglect of Sanskrit
Blunder–83 : Rise of the Parasitic Leftist-‘Liberal’ Class
Blunder–84 : Mental & Cultural Slavery
Blunder–85 : Distorted, Self-Serving Secularism & Minorityism
Blunder–86 : Nehru & Uniform Civil Code (UCC)
Blunder–87 : ‘Sickularism’ vs. Somnath Temple
Blunder–88 : Would-have-been Communal Reservation
Blunder–89 : Not Seeking Reparations from the British
Nehru and the Distortion of Indian History & Heritage
Blunder–90 : No De-Falsification of History
Blunder–91 : Being Creative With History
Blunder–92 : Nehru & Negationism
Blunder–93 : Distortions of History by Nehru Himself
Blunder–94 : Being Anti-Hindu
9. Dynacracy & Dictatorial Tendencies
Blunder–95 : Nehru’s Dictatorial Ways
Blunder–96 : Nehru—Power Trumps Principles
Blunder–97 : Nehru Curbed Freedom of Expression
Further Blunders Beyond 97
Blunder–98 : “Democracy, thanks to Nehru?”—NOT True
Blunder–99 : Nehru Promoted Dynacracy, NOT Democracy
Blunder–100 : Not Limiting the Term of the PM
Blunder–101 : Not Appointing a Successor, Deliberately
Blunder–102 : Election Funding & Publicity
Blunder–103 : Ensuring Self-Publicity & Dynastic Recall
Blunder–104 : Communal, Vote-Bank Politics
Blunder–105 : Promoting Incompetents & Sycophants
10. Nehru’s World View—That Harmed India
Blunder–106 : Nehru’s Defective World View
Blunder–107 : Nehruvianism & Nehru’s ‘Idea of India’
11. Hubris, Ill-Treatment of Others
Blunder–108 : Modest Academics, Pathetic Grasp of Vital Issues, Yet…
Blunder–109 : Lordly Ways—Good Bye to Gandhian Simplicity
Blunder–110 : Arrogant, Conceited & Full of Hubris
Blunder–111 : Bharat Ratnas—Ignoring the Deserving
Blunder–112 : Nehru & Netaji Subhas Mystery
Blunder–113 : Nehru & Netaji’s Stolen War Chest
Blunder–114 : Gross Ill-Treatment of INA
Blunder–115 : Ill-Treatment of Netaji Bose
Blunder–116 : Ill-Treatment of Bhagat Singh & Azad
Blunder–117 : Ill-Treatment of Veer Savarkar
Blunder–118 : Ill-Treatment of Sardar Patel
Blunder–119 : Ill-Treatment of Sardar Patel’s Daughter Maniben
Blunder–120 : Ill-Treatment of Dr Ambedkar
Blunder–121 : Ill-Treatment of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
Blunder–122 : Ill-Treatment of Dr Rajendra Prasad
Blunder–123 : Ill-treatment of PD Tandon
Blunder–124 : Ill-Treatment of Bordoloi
Blunder–125 : Ill-Treatment of General Thimayya
Blunder–126 : Ill-Treatment of Public
Blunder–127 : Special Treatment for Edwina Mountbatten
12. Even More Blunders & Related Aspects
Nehru Gifted Kabo Valley
Paying Respects to Babar!
13. Evaluating Nehru
14. Bibliography

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