Modern Review May 1948

We have therefore been trying to solve this problem by negotiation but that does not mean that we are afraid of following the path of war." Pandit Nehru said that the Government of India wished to apply the same principles to Hyderabad og in the case of Kashmir Junagadh and other States namely that the wish of the people of the State should ultimately prevail. [...] Pandit Nehru was asked whether the Government of India would intervene in Hyderabad State if the safety of the people in the State were endangered b3 the activities of the Ratakaia Pandit Nehru said it was not a question of acces coon nor even of responsible government in the State although these issues were important by themselves. [...] "In regard to more detailed suggestion made in the Report and in view of the Industrial policy anounced by the Government of India the A. L C. C. appoint the following Standing Committee with powers to co-opt for specifi: purposes to consider the implementation of the general programme move specially in regard to priorities and make recomendations from time to time to the Working Committ [...] with mere condemnation of "provincialism." He has seen how condemnation of the "Pakistan" idea could not halt any of the evils prdicted; neither we are afraid is it going to prove infare effective in the case of "provincialism." In the Andhra-Tamilinn controversy for instance we heard of the latter monopolizing all the plums of profit in professions and in the services of the State. [...] In the case of Bihar and Assam the fear of the Bengalee has been the moving.impulse for whit we see today as the quickeing of a sentiment which in the absence of a better term may be called Bihar and Ahom nationalism.