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Comment: Nehru’s views on socialism.

  • UPSC 2007
  • 20 marks
  • Planning and Economic Development

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Jawaharlal Nehru's socialism was a conviction before it was a policy, and a policy before it was a system. Its core was ethical — ending mass poverty and the exploitation of the many by the few — but its method was democratic, evolutionary and pragmatic, which is why it produced a planned mixed economy rather…

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