In this post I will deal with B K Nehru's view about Nehru household before he bid it a good bye to join ICS. He gives a picture of Kashmirs brahmin community in Allahabad which is interesting. A community which is rising under colonial masters in a sense cheating with other countrymen but at the same time cuaght in a time wrap in some issues.
Motilal comes as anglicized person with a great degree of contempt for common Indianm. This so called first family of India was so angliscised that they had names like batty,Dorthy for each other in house. Their living was particularly anglicized in all respects and we don't find much mention of Indian religions and common Indian people except their servants.I think it was only thanks to his dad and his postings outside Allahabad that BK turned out to be sensible man that he was.
e.g. how luxurious used to be stay of Nehru's in jail. But still one would have to agree that family wholeheartedly supported an uncertain cause and especially Nehru;s effort to organize peasants in UP were commendable.
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