Homework Help is Here – Start Your Trial Now!
Social Science
History
Hey guys, please read the attached source and respond to the questions below by tomorrow. • What are the two visions of a future Indian society that Nehru and Gandhi put forward in their letters (What was Nehru's vision and what was Gandhi's vision)? What about these two visions might explain why Nehru's vision will ultimately be the one that wins out in independent India? Please at least read the source in preparation for tomorrow. If you need a little more time to respond, in order to make up work as the marking period comes to an end, that is okay. 附件 TwoVisionsOfindia.jpg

Hey guys, please read the attached source and respond to the questions below by tomorrow. • What are the two visions of a future Indian society that Nehru and Gandhi put forward in their letters (What was Nehru's vision and what was Gandhi's vision)? What about these two visions might explain why Nehru's vision will ultimately be the one that wins out in independent India? Please at least read the source in preparation for tomorrow. If you need a little more time to respond, in order to make up work as the marking period comes to an end, that is okay. 附件 TwoVisionsOfindia.jpg

icon
Related questions
Question
OPPOSING X VIEWPOINTS Two Visions for India Although Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi agreed on their desire for an independent India, their visions of the future of their homeland were dramatically A Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru I believe that if India, and through India the world, is to achieve real freedom, then sooner or later we shall have to go and live in the villages-in huts, not in palaces. Millions of people can never live in cities and palaces in comfort and peace. Nor can they do so by killing one another, that is, by resorting to violence and untruth. . . . We can have the vision of. . . truth and nonviolence POLITICS & GOVERNMENT different. Nehru favored industrialization to build material prosperity, whereas Gandhi praised the simple virtues of manual labor. The first excerpt is from a speech by Nehru; the second is from a letter written by Gandhi to Nehru. only in the simplicity of the villages. That simplicity resides in the spinning wheel and what is implied by the spinning wheel. . . . You will not be able to understand me if you think that I am talking about the villages of today. My ideal village still exists only in my imagination. .. . In this village of my dreams the villager will not be dull-he Nehru's Socialist Creed I am convinced that the only key to the solution of the world's problems and of India's problems lies in socialism, and when I use this word I do so not in a vague humanitarian way sense. . . . I see no way of ending the poverty, the vast but in the scientific economic will be all awareness. He will not live like an animal in unemployment, the degradation and the subjection of the Indian people except through socialism. That involves vast and revolutionary changes in our political and social structure, the ending of vested interests in land and industry, as well as the feudal and autocratic Indian states system. That means the ending of private property, except in a restricted sense, and the replacement of the present profit system by a higher ideal of cooperative service. . . . In short, it means a new civilization, radically different from the present capitalist order. Some glimpse filth and darkness. Men and women will live in freedom, prepared to face the whole world. There will be no plague, no cholera, and no smallpox. Nobody will be allowed to be idle or to wallow in luxury. Everyone will have to do body labor. Granting all this, I can still envisage a number of things that will have to be organized on a large scale. Perhaps there will even be railways and also post and telegraph offices. I do not know what things there will be or will not be. Nor am I bothered about it. If I can make sure of the essential we can have of this new civilization in the territories of the U.S.S.R. Much has happened there which has pained me greatly and with which I disagree, but I look upon thing, other things will follow in due course. But if I give up the essential thing, I give up everything. that and fascinating unfolding of a new order and a great new civilization as the most promising feature of our dismal age. What are the key differences between these two views on the future of India? WWhy do you think Nehru's proposals triumphed over Gandhi's? Sources: Nehru's Socialist Creed. From Sources of Indian Tradition by William Theodore De Bary. Copyright © 1988 by Columbia University Press, New York. A Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru. Excerpt from Gandhi “Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru" pp. 328–331 from Gandhi In India: In His Own Words, Martin Green, ed. Copyright © 1987 by Navajivan Trust. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England.
Transcribed Image Text:OPPOSING X VIEWPOINTS Two Visions for India Although Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi agreed on their desire for an independent India, their visions of the future of their homeland were dramatically A Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru I believe that if India, and through India the world, is to achieve real freedom, then sooner or later we shall have to go and live in the villages-in huts, not in palaces. Millions of people can never live in cities and palaces in comfort and peace. Nor can they do so by killing one another, that is, by resorting to violence and untruth. . . . We can have the vision of. . . truth and nonviolence POLITICS & GOVERNMENT different. Nehru favored industrialization to build material prosperity, whereas Gandhi praised the simple virtues of manual labor. The first excerpt is from a speech by Nehru; the second is from a letter written by Gandhi to Nehru. only in the simplicity of the villages. That simplicity resides in the spinning wheel and what is implied by the spinning wheel. . . . You will not be able to understand me if you think that I am talking about the villages of today. My ideal village still exists only in my imagination. .. . In this village of my dreams the villager will not be dull-he Nehru's Socialist Creed I am convinced that the only key to the solution of the world's problems and of India's problems lies in socialism, and when I use this word I do so not in a vague humanitarian way sense. . . . I see no way of ending the poverty, the vast but in the scientific economic will be all awareness. He will not live like an animal in unemployment, the degradation and the subjection of the Indian people except through socialism. That involves vast and revolutionary changes in our political and social structure, the ending of vested interests in land and industry, as well as the feudal and autocratic Indian states system. That means the ending of private property, except in a restricted sense, and the replacement of the present profit system by a higher ideal of cooperative service. . . . In short, it means a new civilization, radically different from the present capitalist order. Some glimpse filth and darkness. Men and women will live in freedom, prepared to face the whole world. There will be no plague, no cholera, and no smallpox. Nobody will be allowed to be idle or to wallow in luxury. Everyone will have to do body labor. Granting all this, I can still envisage a number of things that will have to be organized on a large scale. Perhaps there will even be railways and also post and telegraph offices. I do not know what things there will be or will not be. Nor am I bothered about it. If I can make sure of the essential we can have of this new civilization in the territories of the U.S.S.R. Much has happened there which has pained me greatly and with which I disagree, but I look upon thing, other things will follow in due course. But if I give up the essential thing, I give up everything. that and fascinating unfolding of a new order and a great new civilization as the most promising feature of our dismal age. What are the key differences between these two views on the future of India? WWhy do you think Nehru's proposals triumphed over Gandhi's? Sources: Nehru's Socialist Creed. From Sources of Indian Tradition by William Theodore De Bary. Copyright © 1988 by Columbia University Press, New York. A Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru. Excerpt from Gandhi “Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru" pp. 328–331 from Gandhi In India: In His Own Words, Martin Green, ed. Copyright © 1987 by Navajivan Trust. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England.
Hey guys, please read the attached source and respond to the questions below by tomorrow. What are the two visions of a future Indian society that Nehru and Gandhi put forward in their letters (What was Nehru's vision and what was Gandhi's vision)? What about these two visions might explain why Nehru's vision will ultimately be the one that wins out in independent India? Please at least read the source in preparation for tomorrow. If you need a little more time to respond, in order to make up work as the marking period comes to an end, that is okay. 附件 TwoVisionsOflndia.jpg
Transcribed Image Text:Hey guys, please read the attached source and respond to the questions below by tomorrow. What are the two visions of a future Indian society that Nehru and Gandhi put forward in their letters (What was Nehru's vision and what was Gandhi's vision)? What about these two visions might explain why Nehru's vision will ultimately be the one that wins out in independent India? Please at least read the source in preparation for tomorrow. If you need a little more time to respond, in order to make up work as the marking period comes to an end, that is okay. 附件 TwoVisionsOflndia.jpg
Expert Solution
trending now

Trending now

This is a popular solution!

steps

Step by step

Solved in 2 steps

SEE SOLUTIONCheck out a sample Q&A here
Blurred answer