Stories written by
Devika Sethi
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‘I am a servant of the Indian people’: Jawaharlal Nehru’s banned statement at his trial for sedition
An excerpt from ‘Banned and Censored: What the British Raj Didn’t Want Us to Read’, selected and introduced by Devika Sethi.
Devika Sethi
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How Nehru reacted to violent protests in 1956 demanding withdrawal of a book about religious leaders
The prime minister kept all options open except for that of banning the book, which he considered to be ‘of very doubtful legality’.
Devika Sethi