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The letters that Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten, wife of India's last Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, wrote to each other were no ordinary exchanges. In her book "India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power", the Mountbattens' daughter Pamela has devoted an entire section to their romance that she insists was entirely "platonic". "My mother had already had lovers. My father was inured to it. It broke his heart the first time, but it was somehow different with Nehru," Pamela has written. And the story she narrates is backed by a wealth of documentary evidence – such as the letter that Lord Mountbatten wrote to her elder sister in June 1948: "She and Jawaharlal (sic) are so sweet together, they really dote on each other in the nicest way and Pammy and I are doing everything we can to be tactful and help. Mummy has been incredibly sweet lately and we've been such a happy family." There existed, according to Pamela, a "happy three-some" – and while discussing the high literary merits of the correspondence, she quotes from a letter that Nehru wrote to Edwina in March 1957: "Suddenly I realised (and perhaps you also did) that there was a deeper attachment between us, that some uncontrollable force, of which I was dimly aware, drew us to one another, I was overwhelmed and at the same time exhilarated by this new discovery. We talked more intimately as if some veil had been removed and we could look into each other's eyes without fear or embarrassment."
Pamela also cites evidence to prove that not only did her father warmly accept Nehru's deep spiritual bonding with his 44-year-old wife, but used it every time he was confronted with the Kashmir problem – one of the knottiest and critical issues during his vice-regal tenure.
Writes Pamela: "My father trusted her decisions implicitly.... And of course, her special relationship with Pandit Nehru was very useful for him – ever the pragmatist – because there were moments towards the end of our time in India when the Kashmir problem was extremely difficult. Pandit Nehru was a Kashmiri himself, so he was emotional about the problem. If things were particularly tricky, my father would say to my mother, 'Do try to get Jawaharlal to see that this is terribly important...' " Did Edwina’s interjections with Nehru change the fate of Kashmir? Could Kashmir have been handled differently?
Nehru never let any of this come in the way of his official duties, writes Pamela. All his letters were written after two in the morning, and were an account of not only his private hopes and fears, but also of the people he had been seeing. Indeed, so enduring was the bond between the two that, even after the Mountbattens went back to London, the two made sure they met at least twice a year. India would unfailingly be on her itinerary every time Edwina travelled overseas. And when Nehru went to London to attend the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conferences he would spend the weekend with the Mountbattens.
Edwina was 44 when she came to India and 58 when she died in 1960 in her sleep. A sheaf of the correspondence was found by her bedside – the entire lot of which she willed to her husband. "A suitcase was crammed full of them. My father was certain that there would be nothing in the letters to wound him.
However, a tiny doubt caused him to ask me to read the letters first. They were remarkable letters but contained nothing to hurt him," writes Pamela.
Ranjit Bhushan
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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The letters that Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten, wife of India's last Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, wrote to each other were no ordinary exchanges. In her book "India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power", the Mountbattens' daughter Pamela has devoted an entire section to their romance that she insists was entirely "platonic". "My mother had already had lovers. My father was inured to it. It broke his heart the first time, but it was somehow different with Nehru," Pamela has written. And the story she narrates is backed by a wealth of documentary evidence – such as the letter that Lord Mountbatten wrote to her elder sister in June 1948: "She and Jawaharlal (sic) are so sweet together, they really dote on each other in the nicest way and Pammy and I are doing everything we can to be tactful and help. Mummy has been incredibly sweet lately and we've been such a happy family." There existed, according to Pamela, a "happy three-some" – and while discussing the high literary merits of the correspondence, she quotes from a letter that Nehru wrote to Edwina in March 1957: "Suddenly I realised (and perhaps you also did) that there was a deeper attachment between us, that some uncontrollable force, of which I was dimly aware, drew us to one another, I was overwhelmed and at the same time exhilarated by this new discovery. We talked more intimately as if some veil had been removed and we could look into each other's eyes without fear or embarrassment."Pamela also cites evidence to prove that not only did her father warmly accept Nehru's deep spiritual bonding with his 44-year-old wife, but used it every time he was confronted with the Kashmir problem – one of the knottiest and critical issues during his vice-regal tenure.
Writes Pamela: "My father trusted her decisions implicitly.... And of course, her special relationship with Pandit Nehru was very useful for him – ever the pragmatist – because there were moments towards the end of our time in India when the Kashmir problem was extremely difficult. Pandit Nehru was a Kashmiri himself, so he was emotional about the problem. If things were particularly tricky, my father would say to my mother, 'Do try to get Jawaharlal to see that this is terribly important...' " Did Edwina’s interjections with Nehru change the fate of Kashmir? Could Kashmir have been handled differently?
Nehru never let any of this come in the way of his official duties, writes Pamela. All his letters were written after two in the morning, and were an account of not only his private hopes and fears, but also of the people he had been seeing. Indeed, so enduring was the bond between the two that, even after the Mountbattens went back to London, the two made sure they met at least twice a year. India would unfailingly be on her itinerary every time Edwina travelled overseas. And when Nehru went to London to attend the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conferences he would spend the weekend with the Mountbattens.
Edwina was 44 when she came to India and 58 when she died in 1960 in her sleep. A sheaf of the correspondence was found by her bedside – the entire lot of which she willed to her husband. "A suitcase was crammed full of them. My father was certain that there would be nothing in the letters to wound him.
However, a tiny doubt caused him to ask me to read the letters first. They were remarkable letters but contained nothing to hurt him," writes Pamela.
Ranjit Bhushan
For more articles, Click on IIPM Article.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.
ZEE BUSINESS BEST B SCHOOL SURVEY
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IIPM: History, and Founder Director Dr. M.K. Chaudhuri
IIPM New Delhi, The Indian Institute of Planning and Management, India
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IIPM New Delhi India
IIPM MBA Institute India
IIPM - International
Business and Economy - India's Most Influential Business and ...
Rankings IIPM, The Indian Institute of Planning and Management India
Management Certification, IIPM India
(IIPM) Management Education Institute India
Indian Institute of Planning and Management: IIPM New Delhi, India
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