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> [“Peking followed Lenin’s dictum that ‘promises, like piecrusts, are meant to be broken’.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/peking-followed-lenin-s-dictum-that-promises-like-piecrusts-are-meant/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

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## More by Ramachandra Guha

> [“They assured him that the president was bound to act with ‘the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers and cannot act independently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/they-assured-him-that-the-president-was-bound-to-act-with-the-aid-and/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [“the most powerful enemy of the idea of India now is the Indian state.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/the-most-powerful-enemy-of-the-idea-of-india-now-is-the-indian-state/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [“remarkable achievement’, then went on to say that ‘both Union and democracy are under increasing strain these days, with the future of both in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/remarkable-achievement-then-went-on-to-say-that-both-union-and/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [“an empty refugee special steaming into Ferozepur Station late one afternoon. The driver was incoherent with terror, the guard was lying dead in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/an-empty-refugee-special-steaming-into-ferozepur-station-late-one/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/it-is-in-the-nature-of-democracies-perhaps-that-while-visionaries-are/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [“In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/in-1951-dec-20th-nehru-while-campaigning-for-the-first-democratic/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/so-long-as-the-constitution-is-not-amended-beyond-recognition-so-long/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [What is now in the past was once in the future](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/what-is-now-in-the-past-was-once-in-the-future/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [“In 1962 one Naga faction had made its peace with the government of India, as had another faction in 1975. But there remained a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/in-1962-one-naga-faction-had-made-its-peace-with-the-government-of/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [“The world over, the rhetoric of modern democratic politics has been marked by two rather opposed rhetorical styles. The first appeals to hope, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/the-world-over-the-rhetoric-of-modern-democratic-politics-has-been/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [“The first such avenue was education. After Independence there was a great expansion in school and college education. By law, a certain portion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/the-first-such-avenue-was-education-after-independence-there-was-a/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [“Peking followed Lenin’s dictum that ‘promises, like piecrusts, are meant to be broken’.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/peking-followed-lenin-s-dictum-that-promises-like-piecrusts-are-meant/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

> [“The Kingsford–Maitland view of Christianity appealed to Gandhi because it asked not for exaltation of a personal Saviour, but fidelity to one’s conscience.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramachandra-guha/the-kingsford-maitland-view-of-christianity-appealed-to-gandhi/)

[Ramachandra Guha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramachandra-guha/)

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