💍📜 Of Civil Reforms and Communal Faultlines | Chapters 55 & 56 of Nehru's "Autobiography"

 💍📜 Marriage laws, language politics & communal divides…

🎧 Chapters 55 & 56 of Nehru’s Autobiography !

📘 55: A Civil Marriage and a Question of Script
From personal experience, Nehru questions outdated Hindu marriage laws and advocates for civil reform.
He also calls for a simple, inclusive Hindustani—bridging the Hindi-Urdu divide—to foster literacy and national unity.
Language, for Nehru, is a tool of progress, not a battleground of orthodoxy.

📘 56: Communalism and Reaction
Nehru exposes communalism as a tool of elites and colonialists.
He criticizes Muslim feudal leadership and British divide-and-rule policies that weakened the nationalist cause.
His vision: Inclusive, secular, and socio-economic upliftment over religious identity politics.

🎧 Listen to these candid, forward-thinking reflections by a leader ahead of his time.

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