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“Having won political freedom, India had to win economic and cultural freedom.” Comment.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Economic Development and Political Change

Political sovereignty in 1947 was only the first of three freedoms India needed to secure.

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  • The Economic Freedom Agenda: Planning and Self-Reliance
  • Land Reform: Breaking the Feudal Structure Inherited from Colonial Rule
  • Cultural Freedom: Indigenising Science, Knowledge and Institutions
  • The Gap Between Promise and Delivery

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