Katherine Frank > Quotes

“Thus, both Mountbatten and Nehru stipulated that the ultimate fate of Kashmir should be settled ‘by reference to the people’, and on 2 November Nehru broadcast on All India Radio that ‘we are prepared when peace and law and order have been established to have a referendum’.”
― Katherine Frank, Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

“Nehru reiterated this pledge in a telegram to the new Pakistani Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, and added ‘we have agreed to an impartial international agency like the United Nations supervising any referendum’.”
― Katherine Frank, Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

“In November 1917, however, instead of myth, there was only regret over the birth of a girl. But not devastation. Kamala”
― Katherine Frank, Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi