Thursday, February 26, 2015

Jawaharlal Nehru was in jail again - 1930

Doaba (Punjab), also known as Bist Doab or Jullundur Doab, is the region of the Punjab between the Beas andSutlej rivers, one of the five Punjab doabs. People of this region are given the demonym "Doabia". The dialect of Punjabi spoken in Doaba is called "Doabi". The term "Doaba" or "Doab" is derived from Persian "دو آب" (do āb "two water") meaning "land of two rivers"
On the Ravi River, the earliest project built was the Madhopur Headworks, in 1902. It is a run-of-the river project (no storage envisaged) to divert flows through the Upper Bari Doab Canal (also known as Central Bari Doab Canal) to provide irrigation in the command area of the then unified India. Doabas formed by the Ravi River are known as the Rechna Doab – between the Chenab and the Ravi River, and the Bari Doab or Majha – between the Ravi and the Beas River. Government of India has assessed the pre-partition utilisation in India (Punjab) as 1,476,000 acre feet (1.821 km3). 
On Dec 1929, President Jawaharlal Nehru hoisted the flag of Independence before a massive public gathering along the banks of the river, marked grey coloured. 
the Congress would promulgate the Purna Samaj.(The Complete Independence)declaring on 26 January 1930.despite his father's death in 1931, Nehru and his family remained at the forefront of the struggle and was arrested with his wife and sisters. Nehru was imprisoned all but four months between 1931 and 1935. During that same period , however his popularity grew enormously.
According to John Gunther ( John Gunther was an American journalist and author whose success came primarily through a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books.), Nehru waa both "
"distrustful of it, while simultaneously unable to control being somewhat "exhilarated and impressed"
   His family quickly chastened him with raillery ; his wife and sistrs and even his small daughter, began to  call him in the home the names he was given by the crowd. 
Nehru was  released by the British and he traveled with his family once again to Europe in 1935, where his ailing wife Kamala would remain bed-ridden.Torn between the freedom struggle and tending to his wife , Nehru would travel back and forth between India and Europe.Kamala Nehru died on February 28, 1936. 
Deeply saddened , Nehru neverthless continued to maintain a hectic schedule. In her memory, he wrote a fresh rose on his coat for the rest of his life.

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