Jawaharlal expressed admiration for the nationalism of Tilak and the Extremists, criticizing his father for being ‘immoderately moderate’. Years later he recognized that his father’s objections to the Extremists were based less on a dislike of their methods than on the Hindu nationalism they expressed, at odds with Motilal’s own secular cosmopolitanism. The radical streak in Jawaharlal Nehru began to show from the moment of his arrival in England. The news of the Japanese naval triumph over Russia at Tsushima in 1905 thrilled him with the realization that a great European power could be
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