The God Who Failed: An Assessment of Jawaharlal Nehru's Leadership

by Madhav Godbole

in his letter dated 17 April 1950 to the premier of the United Provinces, G.B.Pant: These recent occurrences in the UP have greatly distressed me. Or perhaps this was a culmination of what I had been feeling for a long time…I have felt for a long time that the whole atmosphere of the UP has been changing for the worse from the communal point of view. Indeed the UP is becoming almost a foreign land for me. I do not fit in there…I have not been to the UP for a long time. That is partly due to the lack of time, but the real reason is that I hesitate to go there. I do not wish to come into conflict with my old colleagues and I feel terribly uncomfortable there, because I find that communalism has invaded the minds and hearts of those who were the pillars of Congress in the past.