Selected Works of Govind Ballabh Pant Volume 13

by Pant, Govind Ballabh; Nanda, B. R.

• ISBN13: 9780195647297
• ISBN10: 0195647297
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume covers the period from August 1947 to March 1949. Following the partition of the subcontinent, communal violence erupted. As this volume shows, Pant dealt with the situation with skill and firmness. The book also looks at the creation of the constitution and Pant's constructiverole as a senior Congress Leader.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Editorial Note	vii
A Biographical Sketch	xi
Govind Ballabh Pant
Illustrations	xxi
Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms
End of an Order 10June 1949	3	(8)
The U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Bill 7,9 and 13 July 1949	11	(21)
On the U.P.P.C.C. Resolution on Zamindari Abolition 27 August 1949	32	(1)
Zamindari Abolition--an Ethical and Economic Necessity 11 December 1949	33	(1)
On the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Bill as Amended by the Joint Select Committee 16 January 1950	34	(8)
Concluding Speech on Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Bill in U.P. Assembly 4 August 1950	42	(7)
Introduction of the Bill in Upper House 11 September 1950	49	(3)
Reply to Criticisms of the Bill in Upper House 30 November 1950	52	(5)
On the Amendment Made by the Upper House 28 December 1950	57	(1)
Final Passage of the Bill 10 January 1951	58	(7)
Food and Agriculture
Beginning of Panchayat Raj in U.P. 15 August 1949	65	(1)
Significance of Co-operative Way of Life 24 October 1949	66	(3)
To G.L. Mehta 27 October 1949	69	(1)
Importance of Livestock in Indian Farming 12 February 1950	69	(4)
To Tribhuvan Narayan Singh 17 November 1950	73	(1)
On Success of the Colonisation Scheme in Naini Tal Tarai 26 November 1950	74	(1)
On Food Situation 21 December 1950	75	(5)
Need for Change in Outlook of Students of Agriculture 7 January 1951	80	(1)
On Achievements of Panchayats 14 March 1951	81	(6)
All-out Effort to Improve Agriculture 20-21 March 1951	87	(8)
Industry and Planning
To Pattabhi Sitaramayya 18 April 1949	95	(1)
To Pattabhi Sitaramayya 20 April 1949	96	(6)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 24 April 1949	102	(1)
To Vallabhbhai patel 17 November 1949	103	(1)
To Albert Mayer 23 November 1949	104	(1)
On Role of Engineers 25 November 1949	105	(1)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 27 November 1949	106	(1)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 6 December 1949	107	(1)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 16 December 1949	108	(1)
A Short-term Plan for Development of the Country 21 February 1950	109	(1)
Circular Letter to Chief Ministers and Presidents of Provincial Congress Committees 21 April 1950	110	(1)
Development Projects and Private Enterprise 27 April 1950	111	(1)
To Homi P. Mody 24 July 1950	112	(2)
Problems of Planning 27 March 1951	114	(5)
Communalism
I. General
To Vallabhbhai Patel 28 May 1949	119	(1)
Muslims and Thrill of Freedom 27 February 1950	120	(8)
Appeal for Just Treatment of Minorities 2 April 1950	128	(1)
Telegram to Jawaharlal Nehru 15 April 1950	129	(1)
Responsibility of the Urdu Press 17 April 1950	130	(1)
Appeal to Check Migration of Muslims to Pakistan 22 April 1950	131	(2)
On Role of Pakistan Press 9 May 1950	133	(1)
On Situation in Ayodhya 14 September 1950	134	(3)
To V. Shankar 18 October 1950	137	(1)
To A.M. Khwaja 20 August 1951	138	(3)
II. Rehabilitation of Refugees
On Construction of Refugee Township 21 April 1949	141	(1)
To Rajendra Prasad 13 June 1949	141	(1)
To Mohanlal Saksena 20-21 October 1949	142	(2)
Rehabilitation of Refugees 28 April 1950	144	(5)
III. Relations with Pakistan
Urge to Implement the Indo-Pakistan Agreement 11 April 1950	149	(1)
On Indo-Pakistan Relations 30 September 1950	149	(2)
The U.N. Resolution on Kashmir wholly Unacceptable 5 May 1951	151	(6)
Speaker and Deputy Speaker of U.P. Assembly
Farewell to P.D. Tandon 10 August 1950	157	(3)
On Election of Nafisul Hasan as Speaker 21 December 1950	160	(2)
On Election of Har Govind Pant as Deputy Speaker 5 January 1951	162	(5)
Reconstruction and Administrative Matters
I. Perspectives
Birth of Indian Republic and New Responsibilities 26 January 1950	167	(1)
Message on Independence Day 15 August 1950	168	(1)
Appeal to Follow in Footsteps of Gandhi 2 October 1950	169	(4)
II. General
Slanderous Gossips 23 September 1949	173	(1)
On Criticism of the Governor's Address 4 February 1950	174	(8)
Individual's Responsibilities towards the State 2 March 1950	182	(6)
On Demand for Decentralisation of Power Structure 12 September 1950	188	(5)
A Revolutionary Budget 2 March 1951	193	(8)
On Performance of the Government 7-8 March 1951	201	(9)
Ministers and Election Funds 22 August 1951	210	(9)
III. Government Officials
Legislators and Criticism of Government Employees 16 March 1950	219	(2)
Administrative Officers and Welfare of Masses 30 October 1950	221	(10)
IV. Language Policy
Use of Hindi in Bills and Acts 6&8 February 1950	231	(10)
V. Communists
On Threat of Communism 7 July 1949	241	(1)
To Jawaharlal Nehru 9 April 1950	242	(1)
To Jawaharlal Nehru 16 April 1950	242	(5)
VI. Sikhs
To H.V.R. Iengar 29 April 1949	247	(1)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 30 April 1949	248	(1)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 3 May 1949	248	(5)
VII. Education
On Suggestion for Synthesis of Allopathy and Ayurveda 15-27 June 1949	253	(2)
To Homi P. Mody 24 August 1949	255	(1)
Gorakhpur University and Visions of New Indian Life 2 May 1949	255	(1)
To Indra Vidyavachaspati 21 October 1950	256	(1)
On Women's Education 8 November 1950	257	(3)
On Shankar's Cartoons 3 February 1951	260	(1)
Science of Medicine and Humanity 17 February 1951	260	(2)
Scheme of Education 23 April 1951	262	(5)
VIII. Science
To Jairamdas Doulatram 10 September 1949	267	(1)
To Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar 15 November 1949	268	(1)
To Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar 14 December 1949	268	(5)
IX. K.D. Malaviya's Resignation from the U.P. Cabinet
To Keshav Dev Malaviya 29 July 1951	273	(1)
To Keshav Dev Malaviya 2 August 1951	274	(1)
On Keshav Dev Malaviya's Resignation 23 August 1951	275	(8)
X. Invitation to Join the Central Cabinet
To Jawaharlal Nehru 3 May 1950	283	(1)
To Jawaharlal Nehru 10 May 1950	284	(1)
To Jawaharlal Nehru 15 May 1950	285	(4)
XI. Miscellaneous
To Kala Venkatarao 30 September 1949	289	(1)
Administration of Colonization Area 8 October 1949	290	(1)
Role of Judiciary in Free India 20 October 1949	290	(2)
To S. N. Mukerjee 15 November 1949	292	(1)
To Syed Mahmud 18 November 1949	292	(1)
Administration of Enclaves Merged with U.P. 14 February 1950	293	(1)
Prantiya Rakshak Dal---A Unique Force 1 March 1950	294	(1)
Relief to Pensioners and Political Sufferers 23 March 1950	294	(3)
To Syed Mahmud 28 April 1950	297	(1)
New Concept of Jail Administration 3 May 1950	297	(1)
On Publication of False News 5 May 1950	298	(1)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 4 June 1950	299	(1)
To Jawaharlal Nehru 11 July 1950	300	(1)
Fairness and Impartiality in General Election 26 July 1950	301	(1)
Prevention of Black-marketing and Profiteering 9 September 1950	302	(2)
To Sri Krishna Sinha 26 October 1950	304	(1)
To Rafi Ahmad Kidwai 10 November 1950	305	(1)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 20 November 1950	306	(1)
To Sri Krishna Sinha 5 December 1950	307	(1)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 8 December 1950	307	(1)
To Ravi Shankar Shukla 31 December 1950	308	(1)
To Charan Singh 24 February 1951	309	(1)
Separation of Executive and Judiciary 23 May 1951	309	(1)
To Ram Kripal Singh 8 June 1951	310	(1)
Relations with Press 3 July 1951	311	(6)
Social Problems
The Evil of Gambling 2 April 1949	317	(1)
Need for Stricter Measures to Check Gambling 7 April 1949	318	(1)
Removal of Caste Distinctions 29 March 1950	319	(1)
Census and Harmony in Society 29 March 1950	320	(2)
Abolition of Forced Labour 9 May 1950	322	(1)
Uplift of Harijans 10 July 1950	322	(2)
Reservation in Services for Scheduled Castes 16 July 1950	324	(1)
Illicit Traffic in Women 24 October 1950	324	(1)
Importance of Census 21 February 1951	325	(1)
Cinema and Society 6 March 1951	326	(1)
Uplift of Scheduled and Backward Castes 8 March 1951	327	(6)
Princely States
On Merger of Tehri-Garhwal State with U.P. 1 August 1949	333	(2)
On Merger of Benares State with U.P. 15 October 1949	335	(1)
Employment of Officers of Merged States 30 January-3 December 1950	336	(1)
On Problems of Rampur State 26 November 1950	337	(4)
The Congress Organisation
Congress and Phenomenal Change in the Country 8 May 1949	341	(1)
On New Role of Congressmen 5 July 1949	342	(2)
On Rift in U.P. Congress Legislature Party 15 July 1949	344	(1)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 4 January 1950	345	(2)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 13 January 1950	347	(1)
To P. Chakravarti 10 June 1950	348	(1)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 12 June 1950	349	(1)
To Vallabhbhai Patel 29 September 1950	350	(2)
Warning to Hill Districts against Separatist Tendencies 16 May 1951	352	(3)
The Framing of the Constitution
Provincial Sales Tax and the Centre 12 May 1949	355	(2)
To Sri Krishna Sinha 23 June 1949	357	(1)
Composition of Legislative Councils in States 22 July 1949	357	(1)
Provincial Governments' Enterprises and Union Taxation 28 August 1949	358	(1)
Compensation for Acquisition of Private Property 12 September 1949	359	(6)
To V. Shankar 15 September 1949	365	(2)
To Rajendra Prasad 29 November 1949	367	(1)
To Jawaharlal Nehru 5 March 1951	367	(6)
World Affairs
On India's Decision to Remain in Commonwealth 21 May 1949	373	(1)
Buddha's Teachings and Unity of Asian Nations 5 November 1949	374	(1)
On India's Foreign Policy 18 September 1950	374	(3)
Need for International Understanding 3 October 1950	377	(2)
Call to People to Sink Differences in View of Developments in Tibet and Nepal 12 November 1950	379	(2)
On India's Role in International Affairs 6 December 1950	381	(6)
Tributes
Tribute to Abdul Hakim 7 July 1949	387	(1)
On the Demise of Bhuwaneshwari Narain Verma 7 July 1949	387	(1)
Homage to Aziz Ahmad Khan, Thakur Balbhadra Singh and Gopinath Srivastava 9 January 1950	388	(1)
Tribute to Sachchidananda Sinha 8 March 1950	389	(1)
Tribute to Vallabhbhai Patel 19 December 1950	390	(3)
Tribute to Hasrat Mohani, Kunwar Har Prasad Singh and Purnima Banerji 21 August 1951	393	(4)
Personal
To Padmaja Naidu 18 April 1949	397	(1)
To Rajendra Prasad 3 May 1949	397	(1)
To Padmaja Naidu 28 July 1949	398	(1)
To Padmaja Naidu 1 February 1950	399	(1)
To Padmaja Naidu 9 February 1950	400	(1)
To Debi Datt Joshi 2 February 1951	401	(1)
To Padmaja Naidu 20 February 1951	402	(5)
Appendix
1. Jawaharlal Nehru to G.B. Pant 4 September 1949	407	(1)
2. Telegram from Jawaharlal Nehru to G.B. Pant 26 December 1949	407	(1)
3. Vallabhbhai Patel to G.B. Pant 9 January 1950	408	(1)
4. Jawaharlal Nehru to G.B. Pant 5 February 1950	409	(1)
5. Jawaharlal Nehru to G.B. Pant 10 April 1950	409	(2)
6. Telegram from Jawaharlal Nehru to G.B. Pant 11 April 1950	411	(1)
7. Jawaharlal Nehru to G.B. Pant 17 April 1950	411	(2)
8. Jawaharlal Nehru to G.B. Pant 1 May 1950	413	(1)
9. Jawaharlal Nehru to G.B. Pant 2 May 1950	414	(2)
10. Jawaharlal Nehru to G.B. Pant 6 May 1950	416	(1)
Chronology	417	(3)
Genealogy	420	(1)
Index	421