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Nehru responsible for partition? How to read the Dalai Lama's comments

The Dalai Lama's overture comes at a time when the Modi government has isolated him, denying him communication with its decision-making machinery

Bharat Bhushan 

Bharat Bhushan

The Dalai Lama seems to have joined the “open season” declared by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) against India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. This was apparently because Nehru did not concede to Gandhi’s supposed request to make Mohammad Ali Jinnah the first prime minister of Independent India.

A move that he said could have forestalled the Partition. Gandhi scholar and historian Dilip Simeon has corrected the Dalai Lama (https://dilipsimeon.blogspot.com/2018/08/his-holiness-forgets-himself.html). Simeon reminds ...

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First Published: Mon, August 13 2018. 08:32 IST