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The ‘Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru’, a acceptable of 100 volumes, which has immoderate 35,000 documents and astir 3,000 illustrations, is present afloat disposable online.
“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 connection by the JNMF merchandise said.
The facsimiles of the archetypal people mentation are besides disposable alongside the integer text, it said.
Congress wide caput Jairam Ramesh, a trustee of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF) that carried retired the exercise, said the archive volition support getting expanded to screen much text, photographs, audio, and films.
Mr. Ramesh said that the 2nd signifier would entail efforts to find Nehru’s letters.
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 and incorporating that would beryllium of the biggest worth summation to the Nehru archives, helium said.
Questioned arsenic to whether the archives would effort to antagonistic immoderate narratives created by the contiguous dispensation against Nehru, the Congress person said, “The implicit communicative is transparency. Nothing is hidden successful this arsenic this is authentic and wholly transparent, uncensored works of Nehru during his lifetime”.
According to JNMF secretary, Professor Madhavan Palat, “Hereafter caller items volition beryllium added successful stages. These are photographs, audios, videos, books by Nehru, books and different publications connected Nehru that appeared successful his lifetime, immoderate different documentation disposable successful the nationalist domain, the Hindi archetypal of his speeches which had not been published successful the Selected Works, and different akin items.”
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. From measurement 44 onward, that is, from September 1958, Nehru’s 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.
