Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
26,1 (2021) 73-94
Keywords:
Nehru, Jawaharlal, Political and social views
;
Ben-Gurion, David, Political and social views
;
Political leadership
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Israel Politics and government 20th century
;
Israel History 1948-1956
;
India History 1947-
Abstract:
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister (1947-64), and David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister (1948-54; 1955-63), played substantial roles in shaping two modern nation-states in post-Colonial Asia. The article is anchored by a comparative study of the two leaders who influenced nation-building through their individual political values and ideological convictions. The key question posed here is what similarities existed in the nation-building roles these figures played and how they may have contributed to the trajectories followed by their respective nations. Nehru and Ben-Gurion were both modernists in terms of their political visions of a secular, socialist-democratic and egalitarian state. Although the two men never met and remained on non-speaking terms because India had reservations about forging ties with Israel, they both represented qualities of leadership in Asia.
DOI:
10.2979/israelstudies.26.1.04
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