Jawaharlal Nehru

Equally, he could not bear to think of the Indian Princes having a separate channel of communication with the British Crown. They could not be allowed to owe allegiance to any external authority or have any direct or independent relationship with the Crown for that would endanger the internal security of a free India and also arrest the growth and development of the nation. The bedrock of the new Nehruvian ideal of India was that the cultural and linguistic contiguity of the princely states with each other or with surrounding units would be kept uppermost in mind when the amalgamation process would be unveiled.

A comparison between Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose "is the most fascinating" because of their similarities and dissimilarities and of the outcome had they "been able to chalk out a common programme", scholar, Parliamentarian and Bose family member Krishna Bose writes in a compilation titled 'Netaji: Subhas Chandra Boses Life, Politics & Struggle, translated by her youngest son, Sumantra Bose, and published by Picador India.