On Queen Elizabeth’s First India Visit, Nehru Had Refused “This” Request

During her visit to India, Queen Elizabeth went tiger hunting in India and requested to use a calf as bait for hunting tigers. However, her request was gently turned down by the then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

On Thursday late night, Buckingham Palace announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Elizabeth was Britain’s longest-serving monarch.  After the Queen’s death, her eldest son, Prince Charles, will become the monarch of Britain.

During her 6 decades-long reigns. Queen Elizabeth has only visited India, thrice. Queen Elizabeth, the first monarch to have visited independent India, visited India in 1961.  An anecdote from her visit to India will make you go gaga over India’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru.

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During her visit to India, Queen Elizabeth went tiger hunting in India and requested to use a calf as bait for hunting tigers. However, her request was gently turned down by the then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

In 1997, Queen Elizabeth once again returned to India, and this time attempted to face up to some of the United Kingdom’s sordid history, which had been mostly ignored in her previous visits in 1961 and 1983.

Elizabeth visited Jallianwala Bagh, the site where British officers opened indiscriminate fire on a 10,000-strong Indian crowd in 1919, and attempted to bow her head in contrition. But the extent of her comments included only going so far as to admit that the Jallianwala Bagh massacre had been a “difficult episode in our past”, without actually offering up an apology.

Queen Elizabeth’s death will create a huge impact on both, the nation as well as monarchy, which she helped stabilize and modernize over decades of massive social change and family scandals.