Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) had Marxist sympathies at the time of his election to the presidency of the Indian National Congress in 1936. His speech to the Lucknow Congress of April 1936 followed the line advocated by Indian Communist Party leader R. Palme Dutt (1896-1974). Their association went back to Nehru’s undergraduate days at Cambridge and membership in the Asian students’ society.
