Nehru's Slave Dynasty

Nehru wrote in his autobiography 

For many generations the British treated India as a kind of enormous country-house (after the old English fashion) that they owned.

This is absurd. The English country-house was the ancestral home of ancient families which had long owned agricultural land and, more often than not, had a variety of commercial investments in the locality. It was quite usual for the head of the family to serve as a Justice of the Peace or as an officer in the Territorial Army or represent the Shire in Parliament. Often, the advowson of the local rectory or vicarage lay with the family. A younger son might be accommodated in this way though the Navy or the Army were equally respectable alternatives. 

England's squirearchy- 'improving landlords' in the main- were exactly the class that most parts of India lacked. Oriental despotism had seen to that. The permanent settlement failed permanently because the bhadralok weren't gentlemen. They were parasitc blathershites. As for cunning, conniving, Vakils- like the Nehrus- their legacy is plain to see- viz. an Indian National Congress whose allegiance is to an Italian, and whose ideology is anti-national, and which has congress only with itself though no doubt, it pictures itself as Marilyn Monroe signing 'Happy Birthday, Mr. Former President Rahulji!', so as to climax.  

They were the gentry owning the house and occupying the desirable parts of it, while the Indians were consigned to the servants’ hall and pantry and kitchen.

Fuck off! Lots of Indians lived in big palaces. Even the Nehru's own house wasn't too shabby. By contrast the Brits lived in serviceable bungalows while saving up to buy a suburban villa back home.  

As in every proper country-house there was a fixed hierarchy in those lower regions — butler, housekeeper, cook, valet, maid, footman, etc.

such a hierarchy existed in the Nehru household. The INC now, of course, has an even more fixed hierarchy of ass-licker, ass-licker who sings 'Happy Birthday Mr. Former President Rahulji' & ass-licker who sings the same thing in some Dravidian tongue.  

— and strict precedence was observed among them. But between the upper and lower regions of the house there was, socially and politically, an impassable barrier.

No there wasn't. Annie Besant and Nellie Sengupta were Presidents of Congress. But then it was set up by A.O. Hume.  On the other hand, only one Indian was ever elevated to the House of Lords, though two or three Parsis were elected to the lower House. 

Still, Britain could change- it has an Indian origin PM now- but the INC can't change. It remains loyal to the Italian daughter of an Italian Fascist. 

The fact that the British Government should have imposed this arrangement upon us was not surprising;

The British Government didn't impose shit. India wasn't conquered. The Indians preferred to pay the Brits to run things rather than wait till their son or nephew knifed them to inherit the ancestral Estate in the traditional manner.  

but what does seem surprising is that we, or most of us, accepted it as the natural and inevitable ordering of our lives and destiny.

Because you only had to cross the border into a Princely State- e.g. Nehru's sojourn in Nabha- to run screaming back to the British Nanny in the directly ruled areas.  

We developed the mentality of a good country-house servant.

Good country-house servants don't talk bollocks incessantly.  

Sometimes we were treated to a rare honour — we were given a cup of tea in the drawing-room.

Good country-house servants weren't given a cup of tea in the drawing-room. A crate of bubbly might be sent down from time to time and there was the 'Christmas Box' on Boxing Day. Guests might hand out a guinea from time to time and there were cases when the Mistress might sit up with an old family retainer who had taken ill. In grander houses, at an earlier time, it was quite usual for the house-keeper to marry the butler and to be helped to set up a boarding house or respectable Inn or something of that sort. But then, as Jonathan Swift noted sourly, there was an even earlier period when a discarded chamber maid might be married off to the chaplain. 

The height of our ambition was to become respectable and to be promoted individually to the upper regions.

Sinha had been made a Baron. Motilal hadn't. Boo hoo.  

Greater than any victory of arms or diplomacy was this psychological triumph of the British in India. The slave began to think as a slave, as the wise men of old had said.

Motilal sent his son to Harrow and Cambridge. He was the slave of the English, till- quite suddenly- he decided that his son was useless. Better let him spend some time in jail so the fellow can rise in politics. That will secure his future.  

Times have changed, and the country-house type of civilisation is not accepted willingly now, either in England or India.

Fuck off! Nobody would say no to owning a country-house or two. Everybody in Lutyen's Delhi owns a 'farm-house'. Indira, while Nehru was PM, grabbed some land meant to go to refugees to build herself one. It must be said, Indira only made the INC dynastic because she too had a useless son who would land in jail unless he went into politics where he could commit the sort of crimes which keep you out of jail because otherwise prison would get a bad name.  

But still there remain people amongst us who desire to stick to the servants’-halls and take pride in the gold braid and livery of their service.

Nehru had a more modest ambition. Everybody should wear khadi while licking his arse.  

Others, like the Liberals, accept that countryhouse in its entirety, admire its architecture and the whole edifice, but look forward to replacing the owners, one by one, by themselves.

But it was Nehru who did this. He took over Teenmurti Bhavan from the Indian Army C-in-C.  

They call this Indianisation.

What Nehru wanted was Nehruisation though in his biography he spoke of the need to 'Brahminize' the country.

For them the problem is one of changing the colour of the administration, or at most having a new administration. They never think in terms of a new State.

Nehru didn't create a new state. Jinnah did- thanks to Nehru.  Jinnah's descendants, who chose India over Pakistan, are probably as rich or richer than Nehru's. But they didn't steal money from the Indian public. They were and are successful businessmen. 

For them Swaraj means that everything continues as before, only with a darker shade.

Under Nehru things got much darker than under any Viceroy. India could neither feed nor defend itself. Worse yet, drinkable Scotch was prohibitively expensive. 

They can only conceive of a future in which they, or people like them, will play the principal role and take the place of the English high officials; in which there are the same types of services, government departments, legislatures, trade, industry— with the I.C.S. at their jobs;

The ICS was rechristened the IAS which was infinitely less efficient though better at brown nosing.  

the princes in their palaces, occasionally appearing in fancy dress or carnival attire with all their jewels glittering to impress their subjects; the landlords claiming special protection, and meanwhile harassing their tenants; the money-lender, with his money-bags, harassing both zamindar and tenant; the lawyer with his fees; and God in His heaven.

All this remained true under Nehru. The one innovation was ethnic cleansing.  

Essentially their outlook is based on the maintenance of the status quo, and the changes they desire can almost be termed personal changes.

This is all that the present day INC wants. An Italian should rule though some spineless 'Prone Minister' may reign.  The Army's job is to keep the autocrat safe from assassination. As Zail Singh said 'andar Italian, bahar battalion.' 

And they seek to achieve these changes by a slow infiltration with the goodwill of the British.

Mountbatten and his wife had plenty of 'goodwill' for Nehru. But that blue-blooded Admiral played him like a fiddle.  

The whole foundation of their politics and economics rests on the continuance and stability of the British Empire.

Which, in India, rested on the Mahatma. Had the fellow not unilaterally surrendered in 1922, India would have got Provincial Autonomy in 1924 and some sort of Dominion status as a Federation by the time the Great Depression hit.  

But, if that had happened, the Nehrus would have faded into obscurity. It was Motilal who raised them up briefly. But the reason he did so was because his son was useless. Then his daughter went and married a Muslim. Only the Mahatma's magic could get him out of this pickle. Motilal bent the knee to Gandhi and, precisely because his son was utterly unfit for any other type of employment, thus began the Dynasty's rise. But, it was a Slave Dynasty determined to turn Indians into slaves. Perhaps another Gujarati- Narendra Modi- might undo the damage the Mahatma has done. Perhaps not. By this time next year, the country will have decided unless the Supreme Court sticks its oar in and reverses the Lily Thomas and Subramaniyam Swamy verdicts. In that case, opposition unity evaporates and the threat of Rahul as PM scares voters straight.