Nehru, India`s Prime Minister after independence in 1947, a typical example of his fundamental reaction to life and thought-patterns was Western, particularity British, yet he was no more an Englishman than I am the Kahn of Tartary. He was a complex personality, and affords the best example of my contention. Nehru could identify himself closely with almost every type of Indian: he felt with the Naga like a Naga: with the Brahmin like a Brahmin: with Muslim like a MUslim: with untouchable like an untouchable: yet at heart he was none of these. What he was, I am sure, he himself did not know. He had deep urges and large dreams-that is all. Here was our typically complex and contradictory Indian. There is no doubt that our various racial strains have made us what we are at present- a people with no distinctive soul, but with only a many-coloured psyche. But to say this is not to say all. (will continue). Regards. Sunder T. 20151230
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