His action proved dangerous to the country when Jawaharlal colluded with the British and Jinnah in agreeing to partition the country by creating Pakistan. He dragged the country into Khilafat movement, which was in no way connected to India and thereby causing the moplahs rebellion which caused massive slaughter of Hindus by the Muslims. He betrayed the Hindus who regarded him as demi god and supported the Muslims. He favoured charismatic Motilal Nehru and then his son Jawaharlal to move to the helm of affairs in preference over the morr deserving leaders like Sardar Patel and Rajendra Prasad along with Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. The presidents of the party were thrust by him. His emergence slowly side lined leaders like Tilak and he could manage that Indian National Congress turned to his ways.

In 1919, he started with an agitation against the Rowlette act.

He was slowly building his own image as a semi god man thereby catching the attention of less educated masses who easily fall prey to mass appeal than to think logically. It could be seen that Gandhi, on return from South Africa, waited patiently since the great leaders like Gopalakrishna Gokhale and Bal Gangadhar Tilak were holding sway on the public opinion of the Indians. A close reading of this book shows that he was impartial in his views and is bold enough to vent his feelings about the mistakes by even Mahatma Gandhi, non the less, of Jawaharlal Nehru and lately his daughter Indira Gandhi. Shri Durga Das, in his work, explains his experiences as a journalist the happenings in Indian politics from pre independence days during the tenure of Lord Curzon as the Governor General of India to the days after independence, till Indira Gandhi captured the power in 1966.īy virtue of his position as renowned journalist, Shri Das had the opportunity to closely follow the dignitaries, both British and Indian.

The book india after gandhi