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Compare the Nehruvian and Gandhian models of development.

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  • Planning and Economic Development

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Jawaharlal Nehru and M. K. Gandhi shared a diagnosis — colonial rule had impoverished India — but prescribed opposite cures. Nehru measured development by what India could produce; Gandhi measured it by what production did to the people producing. Their differences run from the purpose of development down to the choice of technique.

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