This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Jawaharlal Nehru article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Auto-archiving period: 60 days |
This article is written in Indian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, analysed, defence) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
This page is not a forum for general discussion about Jawaharlal Nehru. Any such comments may be removed or refactored. Please limit discussion to improvement of this article. You may wish to ask factual questions about Jawaharlal Nehru at the Reference desk. |
Template:Vital article
This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Template:0.7 set nominee
Jawaharlal Nehru received a peer review by Wikipedia editors, which is now archived. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article. |
This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:
|
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
On 23 July, 2015, large chunks of this article were deleted. See diff1 and diff2. The deleted content included the following sections:
Other changes were made to reduce the neutrality of the article. For instance, the words "According to a Times of India editorial, Nehru left behind a disputed legacy, being "either adored or reviled for India's progress or lack of it." were changed to "Nehru, thus, left behind a disputed legacy, being "either adored or reviled for India's progress or lack of it." These words have exactly one source to back them up which is a Times of India editorial. So the previous version was clearly better and not the changed version (which exists till date).
Also, what makes the large scale deletions (refer to diffs given above) curious is that the person who carried them out (refer to diffs given above) has been blocked for socking in the past and is again being accused of socking. I am pinging this editor so that he is aware of the outcome of the RfC: D4iNa4
This RfC is being initiated to determine whether the removed content should be re-inserted into the main article. Please vote Support to accept my proposal to re-insert the deleted material or Oppose to maintain the status quo.Soham321 (talk) 04:11, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
To make it easier to read some of the deleted content, i copied the 'Nehru and Science' material on my user space: Link. Rather than deleting this content altogether, I would like to see a separate main article on this subject giving even more details. Even in this article this section could be expanded to incorporate more information. I also don't like the point format being used here; there is no need for using it. Of course, the question is: what do you do with the two Blackett quotes being used in this section? We could convert both into prose or convert one into prose and leave one as it is. Soham321 (talk) 07:29, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
Reading the Nehru and Science section again makes me conclude that while the content is significant and deserves inclusion in the main article it also needs to be rewritten to make the language more encyclopedic. Soham321 (talk) 08:16, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
In the Wikipedia article on Harold J Laski, a prominent British left/socialist political scientist, it points out that Nehru was one of his students and Laski's thinking greatly influenced Nehru and Laski became well known in India for his articulation of socialist ideas and his championing of Indian independence. Nehru even founded a Harold Laski Institute for Political Science. Thew Wiki article states "He taught generations of future leaders at the LSE, most famously, his prize student, V.K. Krishna Menon. According to John Kenneth Galbraith, "the center of Nehru's thinking was Laski" and "India the country most influenced by Laski's ideas".[16] It is mainly due to his influence that the LSE has a semi-mythological status in India. He was steady in his unremitting advocacy of the independence of India. He was a revered figure to Indian students at the LSE. One Indian Prime Minister of India said "in every meeting of the Indian Cabinet there is a chair reserved for the ghost of Professor Harold Laski".[31][32] His recommendation of K. R. Narayanan (later President of India) to Jawaharlal Nehru (then Prime Minister of India), resulted in Nehru appointing Narayanan to the Indian Foreign Service.[33] In his memory, the Indian government established The Harold Laski Institute of Political Science in 1954 at Ahmedabad.[14]"
The article even quotes Nehru as having said after Laski's death in 1950 "It is difficult to realise that Professor Harold Laski is no more. Lovers of freedom all over the world pay tribute to the magnificent work that he did. We in India are particularly grateful for his staunch advocacy of India's freedom, and the great part he played in bringing it about. At no time did he falter or compromise on the principles he held dear, and a large number of persons drew splendid inspiration from him. Those who knew him personally counted that association as a rare privilege, and his passing away has come as a great sorrow and a shock."
However, in the Wikipedia article on Nehru, there is no mention of Laski anywhere. Should this omission be corrected? While Laski become more radical in his later years and his influence decreased, he was never the less a brilliant and influential academic in his earlier years.
Michael Wiggin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.31.30.14 (talk) 20:43, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
Nehru was at Harrow, was he not? Not mentioned, though. Seadowns (talk) 15:16, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Jawaharlal Nehru. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template ((source check))
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 11:40, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
Can someone hotlink the Annie Besant article wherever her name occurs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Besant — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.3.84.16 (talk) 18:55, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 3 external links on Jawaharlal Nehru. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template ((source check))
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 01:15, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
@Capitals00: this is quite crossing the line. Removing scholarly content for such a spurious reason is likely to land you in deep waters. JosephusOfJerusalem (talk) 06:41, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
The two of you need to explain what issues there are with such content under his personal life? No doubt the man has much to have written about, but his affairs belong under personal life. Its received ample coverage, the sources I cited being a few of them. JosephusOfJerusalem (talk) 07:58, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
When was the first question asked? Read WP:CIVIL and WP:ESDONTS. JosephusOfJerusalem (talk) 08:35, 7 May 2018 (UTC)