‘Presiding at Lahore, Jawaharlal declared that he was “a republican and no believer in kings and princes”, but the succession from father (Motilal) to son seemed to send Jawaharlal’s mother Swaruprani into “a sort of ecstasy”, and there were admiring references to “a king passing on the scepter of the throne to his logical successor”. Gandhi, champion of the rights of the halt and the lame, the last and the least, had unwittingly launched a dynasty.’
