MY POLITICAL MEMOIRS OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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MY

POLITICAL MEMOIRS OR

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

by

Dr. N. B. Khare,

NAGPUR.

FOREWORD OK “

POLITICAL MEMOIRS OF De. F. BY

B.

KHARE ”

Shri N. G. Ghatterjee

Former President, Att-hidia Hindu Mahasabha and ex-Member of Parliament

This thought- provoking Biography

Can a Doctor bo a

raises the

question—

successful politician or statesman

1

How is it that a man of such brilliancif, who occupied the position of a Premier in an important State and that of a member of the Vi(!croy’s Executive Council, and then the Dewan of an imiK>rtant Princely State, and the leader of an All India PoUtioal party, should have achieved, in a high HO HttlR KhaBK has been a picturesque figure in contemporary iKjIitlcs and often niised storms by his non-conformist methods.

of

Y»t if any remier Us " PoUHcal

dispassionately goes through these pages ", he will pcofit and he will notice at

free from opt, and the zigonbe the working of » ndnd virile workings of a oomplex oharactcar, oompletdly immune from

the lure of office or power and all that goes with it. That is why in Independent India he was externed from Delhi and subjected lawless laws”, although he was then the J?resident to coercive Hindu Mahasaibha and came to preside over the All-India the of deliberations of its National Executive.

The intimate

portraiture of his interview^ with Gaiidhiji,

Netaji and other great leaders in this interesting memoirs shows that here is a man who could oifer a challenge to the mightiest also accept a challenge with a poise

and

and balance, somewhat

rare in Indian politics.

Who

else could defy the High

Command and

unequivocal language " I firmly believe that

obey

discipline

of a group

o}?

when it is prostituted

a junta. ”

is

tell

made by Dr. Khare

them

in

cowai’dice to

to serve the linlioly ambitions

Only N. B. Khare could talk

Constitutional purists may disclosures

it

criticise

like that.

some of the

startling

in his political hiograpiiy with

regard to the working of the Congress Executive or the imuttw.r in which the Viceroy's Cabinet functioned in pre- Independent days.

Yet they now form chapters of Indian history and there

are respectable precedents to permit such discloBures and Pandit

Nehru and Maiilana Azad have

We have by

set the example.

yet to come across an Iiidian

who was nominated

the British Viceroy to his Executive (kmneii,

in office could have

and wlio

the hardihood to tell th