Letter to P.R.S. Mani from Jawaharlal Nehru, 17 Jun 1946

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UTSeScholarship, UTS Library
Issue Date:
2014-07-22
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Letter to P.R.S. Mani from Jawaharlal Nehru, 17 Jun 1946. Contents refer to free gift of cloth to Indonesia.

Brief but important letter from Jawaharlal Nehru to Mani, in response to letter from Mani, probably outlining rice offer. Indicates how rice transfer was to be carried out. Nehru congratulates Mani on good work. Then details connections he hopes Mani will make to bring people together or to locate missing people.

Textiles were offered to Indonesia as a free gift by Bombay merchants (who were sympathisers to Congress.

Refers to a Mr Punjabi (Sindhi). This may have been the textile merchant in Surabaya, and an associate of T.D. Kundan (1911-1980). In 1946 one of the Punjabi families had temporarily returned to Hyderabad.

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