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dated April 26, 1958: Non-violence

“Any policy based fundamentally on violence is out of date to-day,” declared Mr. Nehru addressing a public meeting at the University Stadium Ground in Trivandrum on April 24. Paying a tribute to the intellectual qualities of the people of Kerala, he urged them to think of themselves and other problems in the context of world events wherein violence had grown so much that it had become too dangerous to use and modern scientific development and atomic weapons had outmoded all forms based on the old traditional weapons. “Non-violence taught by Buddha and Gandhiji was at that time a great ideal but to-day it was something even more. It was the only practical way to avoid total destruction,” he added. Pleading for a common understanding that violence must be ruled out completely, Mr. Nehru referred pointedly to the resolutions of the Communist Party of India at its recent Amritsar session and said that the party seemed to have “veered round to a very reasonable approach and an approach under Indian terms.”

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