Exploring the roots: From prehistoric beginnings to modern faiths
The reviewer teaches English at the Government-sponsored Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya, Shyambazar, Kolkata.
The reviewer teaches English at the Government-sponsored Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya, Shyambazar, Kolkata.
Although Nehru’s life at Cambridge was quite sedate and uneventful, the intellectual environment of the university stimulated his mind. Nehru was exposed to the Fabian socialism of Bernard Shaw and the ideas of Karl Marx, both of whom influenced him profoundly in forming his political views.
The proletariat had become the majority, he argued, and the prospect of taking power by electoral means, through universal suffrage, made it possible to defend revolution and legality at the same time
With the emergence of secularism and the advent of nationhood, nationalism sprouted, which was a construct beyond merely the monarchy. Meanwhile, at the economic level, capitalistic ideas grew along with the establishment of manufacturing and factories
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