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India's archetypal Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's writings are not conscionable history, they are a grounds of India's evolving conscience, Congress person Rahul Gandhi said connected Friday (November 21, 2025), asserting that for anyone seeking to recognize the nation's antiauthoritarian journey, his words stay a almighty compass.
Mr. Gandhi's remarks came implicit the completion of the digitisation of 'Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru'.
The 'Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru' is present online with an full acceptable of 100 volumes, containing immoderate 35,000 documents and astir 3,000 illustrations related to the country's archetypal Prime Minister, digitised and disposable escaped of outgo for downloading.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge besides hailed the development.
"Facts are facts and volition not vanish connected relationship of your likes’ — Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. In an epoch of deliberate distortion, disinformation and misinformation regarding Pandit Nehru and his colossal achievements for India, it is worthwhile to digitise his writings for information and posterity,” Mr. Kharge said connected X.
“I americium blessed that ‘The Nehru Archive’ is present live: nehruarchive.in. This is India’s archetypal comprehensive, open-access integer archive of Jawaharlal Nehru’s writings — letters, speeches, notes & more, each interconnected and freely disposable for casual access,” helium said.
In a station connected X, Mr. Gandhi said Nehru's writings are not conscionable history, they are a grounds of India's evolving conscience.
"For anyone seeking to recognize our nation's antiauthoritarian travel — its courage, its doubts, its dreams — his words stay a almighty compass," the Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha said.
"I'm gladsome this bequest is present open, searchable, and escaped for all. It volition support getting expanded. Dive into the caller archive," Mr. Gandhi said and shared a nexus to the archive.
Congress wide caput Jairam Ramesh, a trustee of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF) that carried retired the exercise, connected Thursday said its 2nd signifier would entail efforts to find letters to Nehru.
Mr. Ramesh said the Gandhi-Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel-Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose-Nehru correspondence is reasonably comprehensive, but that is not the lawsuit with definite different correspondences specified arsenic Winston Churchill-Nehru and Rabindranath Tagore-Nehru. He said incorporating that would beryllium of the biggest worth summation to the Nehru archive.
Mr. Ramesh called for the integration of archives of starring lights of the clip specified arsenic Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, B.R. Ambedkar and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
"The Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund is blessed to denote that the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is present afloat disposable online, arsenic promised connected November 14, 2024. The website The Nehru Archive is disposable connected nehruarchive.in. The full acceptable of 100 volumes person been digitized; they whitethorn beryllium searched and freely downloaded: and they whitethorn beryllium utilized with adjacent easiness connected the mobile arsenic connected the laptop," a JNMF merchandise said.
The facsimiles of the archetypal people mentation are besides disposable alongside the integer text, it said.
This online mentation would beryllium of immense payment to anybody who wishes to survey immoderate facet of Indian past from the 1920s to the 1960s, the years erstwhile Nehru was a large person of the question for Independence and thereafter was Prime Minister of the country, the connection said.
"It contains immoderate 35,000 documents and astir 3,000 illustrations. From measurement 44 onward, that is, from September 1958, his speeches successful the archetypal Hindi, and an English translation, are besides available. The documents dwell of his correspondence, speeches, interviews, administrative noting connected files, diary entries, and adjacent doodles," the JNMF said.
Mr. Ramesh said the archives person been sourced from 77,000 pages and 35,000 artefacts which are documented and dispersed implicit 61 years.
