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Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lectures

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  1    1966  

Lord Butler of  Saffron Walden

Jawaharlal Nehru - The Struggle for Independence

  2

 1968

The Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Reflections on the Transfer of Power and Jawaharlal Nehru

  3

 1970

Vengalil K. Krishna Menon

Personal Memories of Jawaharlal Nehru

  4  1971 Lord Blackett of Chelsea Aspects of India’s Development
  5  1973 General J N Chaudhuri Nehru and the Indian Armed Forces
  6  1974 P N Haksar The Relevance of Jawaharlal Nehru
  7  1975 Mrs V L Pandit The Nehru Family and its Imprint on Modern India
  8  1978 Sir Harold Wilson Nehru and the New Commonwealth
  9  1980 The Earl of Listowel The British Partner in the Transfer of Power
 10  1983 Shri T. N. Kaul Nehru the Idealist and Revolutionary
 11  1985 Shridath S, Ramphal Rekindling Nehru's Internationalism
 12  1988 Dr Sarvepalli Gopal The English Language in India since Independence, and its future Role
 13  1989 Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma Nehru's Internal Impact on India as Prime Minister
 14  1990 Shri Nani A. Palkhivala Forty-three years of Independence
 15  1991 Mark Tully The Media in India
 16  1993 Amartya Sen The Idea of India
 17  1993 Kapila Vatsyayan Indian Art: The One and the Many (to follow)
 18  1994 John Grigg Indo-British Mythology about the Approach to Independence
 19  1995 Shyam Benegal The Indian Film Industry and Popular Cinema
 20  1997 Dr Manmohan Singh India and the World Economy
 21  1998 Kenneth Clarke India and the New Global Economy
 22  1998 Arundhati Roy The Cost of Living
 23  1999 Narayana N.R. Murthy Software Enterprises - Temples of New India
 24  2001 Asma Jahingir Human Rights in South Asia
 25  2003 Linda Colley The Indian Armed Forces and Politics since 1947: Putting Difference in Context
 26  2003 HRH Prince Hassan of Jordan Multilateralism: Alignment for Peace?
 27  2005 Montek S Ahluwalia India in a Globalising World
 28  2006 Lord Patten Democracy and Development: Friends or Foes
 29  2007 Ratan Tata Entrepreneurship in Modern India
 30  2009 Lord Stern Climate Change, Internationalism and India in the 21st Century
 31  2010 Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi Britain, Gandhi and Nehru

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 2011

Prof Lord Bhikhu Parekh The Crisis of Indian Democracy (to follow)