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Jawaharlal Nehru

1889–1964

Also known as: Nehru, Pandit Nehru, जवाहरलाल नेहरू, पंडित नेहरू

How Jawaharlal Nehru is discussed in this archive

Authored 8 works in the archive.

Referenced in 82 other works — including The Indian Libertarian , The Indian Libertarian , and FREE ENTERPRISE WILL SURVIVE AS LONG AS MAN SURVIVES .

In बळीचे राज्य येणार आहे : Nehru figures in Joshi's polemic as the architect of the Indian planning framework whose price-suppression of agriculture, Joshi argues, mirrored Stalinist collectivisation in its hostility to the peasant — a foundational target of the Shetkari Sanghatana's critique.

In ખોજ : Karia's essay against moral policing invokes Nehru as one of the Indian thinkers in a combined Western-Indian tradition opposing coercive moralism.

In India: Seeing the Future in its Past : Rajan credits Nehru's investment in higher education and science with positioning India to seize liberalisation openings once the political climate shifted — a counterweight to his sharper critique of Nehruvian planning.

In Report : Nehru appears in Sathe's case study as the Prime Minister whose dispute with Rajendra Prasad over the President's obligation to follow Cabinet advice became the testing-ground for converting unwritten conventions into written constitutional rules.

In The Challenge of Poverty : Aiyar names Nehru as the progenitor of the post-colonial autarky policy — equating globalisation with imperialism — whose legacy of self-sufficiency and socialism caused India's share of world trade to collapse from 2.5% to 0.4%.

By Jawaharlal Nehru (8)

In ThePrint (8)

Mentioned in (104)

Primary works (59)

  • बळीचे राज्य येणार आहे · 2010
    • "Joshi argues, in the rendered pages, that the Corn Laws controversy, Stalin's collectivisation, and independent India's Nehruvian planning framework all share a common logic" — Nehruvian planning is the third leg of Joshi's comparative indictment of cheap-food industrialisation
    • "he draws a pointed comparison between Stalin's collectivisation (which destroyed the kulak class) and Nehru's planning framework (which similarly subordinated farmers to an urban-industrial agenda), tracing a shared anti-peasant logic across ideological lines" — explicitly equates Nehru's planning regime with Stalinism in its agrarian effect
  • ખોજ · 2009
    • "Karia draws on a tradition of Western and Indian thinkers — Aristotle, Plato, Raphael, Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore, Vivekananda — who oppose coercive moralism" — Nehru cited alongside Gandhi and Tagore as part of the canonical Indian voice against vigilante morality
  • PROSPERITY BEYOND OUR CITIES BY SPREADING ENTERPRISE · 2007
  • India: Seeing the Future in its Past · 2006
    • "India's silver lining, he notes, was an unintentionally diversified manufacturing base and Nehru's investment in higher education and science, which positioned the country to seize the liberalisation openings under Indira and Rajiv Gandhi and the deeper 1991 reforms." — Nehru is given partial credit for the human-capital base that later reforms could exploit
    • "Rajan argues that India's post-1980 growth was unintentionally well-positioned by a diversified manufacturing base and by Nehruvian investments in higher education, science and public-sector technology (Bharat Electronics, CMC, ECIL, State Bank of India)." — key-points restatement of the Nehruvian inheritance
  • Population and Economic Development In India · 2005
  • Report · 2005
    • "using the controversy over the President's obligation to act on the advice of the Council of Ministers (from Rajendra Prasad's conflicts with Nehru, through M. C. Setalwad's opinion, to the Supreme Court's eventual endorsement and subsequent constitutional amendment) as a case study in the conversion of unwritten conventions into written rules." — Sathe positions Nehru as the executive pole in the constitutional convention dispute
  • The Challenge of Poverty · 2002
    • "leaders such as Nehru equated globalisation with 19th-century imperialism, opted for self-sufficiency, socialism and one-party rule, and produced over a hundred weak, aid-dependent states" — Nehru is the named exemplar of the post-colonial error that autarky equates with liberation
    • "India's share of world trade fell from 2.5 percent at independence to 0.4 percent by 1985 while Singapore and Taiwan, derided as neo-colonial puppets, grew rich" — the empirical indictment of Nehruvian self-sufficiency
  • Decade of Determination to Achieve Sustainable Development · 1997
  • Fifty Years After ... · 1997
    • "He quotes B. K. Nehru on the divergence between the constitutional values of founders like Nehru, Patel, and Rajaji and the values of today's rulers (Laloo, Jayalalitha, Mulayam Singh)." — Nehru invoked as a founding constitutional standard against which today's rulers are measured
  • Liberalism in South Asia · 1995
    • "He diagnoses the resulting post-independence state as a 'Nehruvian socialist brand of statism' that proved hospitable to bureaucratic rent-seeking and hostile to individual economic freedom." — Joshi identifies Nehru by name as the doctrinal source of the statist regime that displaced liberalism in India
    • "The post-independence 'Nehruvian socialist' state, modelled on the USSR, gave power to a bureaucratic class that used regulation and licensing to entrench itself." — key-points summary reprises Nehru's name as the label for the post-1947 statist settlement
  • MUTUAL FUNDS AND OFFSHORE FUNDS IN INDIA · 1991
    • "Krishnamachari's 1963 pitch to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru" — Nehru positioned as the prime ministerial decision-maker behind UTI's founding
  • SPIRIT OF FREE ENTERPRISE · 1991
  • ECONOMIC POLICY FOR INDIA IN 1980s · 1983
    • "Jawaharlal Nehru's powerful Fabian leanings and admiration for the Soviet Union" — B. K. Nehru's genealogy of the command economy, identifying J. Nehru as a key ideological driver
    • "He traces the system's origins to wartime controls, the 1930s fashion for socialism in British universities, Jawaharlal Nehru's Fabian and pro-Soviet leanings, and objective shortages of capital, foreign exchange, industry and entrepreneurs at Independence." — key-points recapitulation of the causal chain B. K. Nehru constructs
  • A Pragmatic Economic Policy for a Government That Works · 1981
  • Judiciary Vis a Vis Parliament & Executive · 1981
    • "the Constituent Assembly's intent — quoting Nehru, Ambedkar and B. N. Rau on the need for judges free from party bias" — foundational move; Nehru is invoked as one of three Constituent-Assembly authorities anchoring the post-1950 judicial standard
  • …and 44 more

Opinion pieces (8)

  • Freedom First's Resistance to Indira Gandhi's Emergency
    • "Indira Gandhi and her sycophants' bid to overturn constitutional provisions was a turn away from the vision of Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhimrao Ambedkar, and Sardar Patel" — Masani's rhetorical deployment of Nehru's constitutional legacy to delegitimise the Emergency amendments
  • India's Nuclear Ambitions: Minoo Masani as a Liberal Peacenik
    • "PM Nehru was a proponent of nuclear disarmament but also endorsed the peaceful use of nuclear energy for development" — establishing Nehru's dual position as the origin point of India's nuclear trajectory
  • Hamid Dalwai and the Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal
    • "Jawaharlal Nehru's government introduced and passed the Hindu Code Bill in 1955-56, defying the Hindu orthodoxy; however, his government couldn't reform the unjust laws affecting Muslim women" — identifying Nehru's failure to extend secular reform to Muslim personal law as the gap the Mandal sought to close
    • "Nehru clarified his intentions of introducing a uniform civil law applicable to both Hindus and Muslim in the future as soon as the community was amicable to such an idea" — Nehru's stated commitment to uniform civil code deferred by political calculation
  • Homi Mody’s Liberalism: From Pro-Business to Pro-Market
    • "In January 1956, he was part of the delegation of industrialists to the PM Nehru" — Mody's direct engagement with Nehru to register business concerns about the planning regime
  • Hriday Nath Kunzru – The Liberal Institution Builder
    • "The project also had the support of Pandit Nehru who sought foreign policy scholars to steer India in international affairs" — Nehru's backing for Kunzru's ISIS project as an area where liberal institution-building and state interest converged
  • Minoo Masani : From Socialism to Liberal Swatantra Party
    • "he even urged Pandit Nehru to visit the Soviet Union when the two met in London in 1927." — first encounter between the two, showing Masani's early influence on Nehru
  • Rajaji's Views on Nuclear Bomb
    • "While the internationalist vision of Nehru and his advocacy of non-alignment is well-recognized and deservedly so, the same is not the case with his comrade-turned-opponent C Rajagopalachari" — sets up Nehru's recognized internationalism as a foil for Rajaji's neglected anti-nuclear stance
  • Swatantra Party : A Big Tent Challenge to Congress Hegemony
    • "What enabled this coalition of disparate groups was the Nehruvian Congress' grip over political power which effectively turned India into one-party democracy and a radical left drift in economic policy." — identifies Nehru's policy agenda as the direct catalyst for the Swatantra coalition

Excerpts (37)

  • A Democracy at War
    • "as handled by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Defence Minister VK Krishna Menon. In a democratic polity, it is obvious that matters of national security in times of crisis would warrant public scrutiny of the government's response." — Nehru is named as the political leader whose decade of appeasement policies led to the 1962 defeat
  • Acharya N G Ranga: The Farmer’s Friend and Swatantra Party Stalwart
    • "Nehru's socialist orientation led to enacting policies encompassing central planning, land redistribution and state control over key industries." — Nehru's statist agenda is the foil against which the Swatantra Party's free-market programme is defined
  • Agricultural Policy of Swatantra Party
    • "The Congress under the lead of Mr Nehru has contented itself with the statement that the subject was decided long ago by Congress resolutions from the days of the Karachi session." — Nehru's Congress is criticised for refusing democratic debate on agricultural policy
  • THE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    • "it is salutary to recall that in l958 the late Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, enunciated the Scientific Policy Resolution to Parliament, to affirm its faith in the vital role of science and technology in the transformation of our society." — Nehru's policy declaration is invoked to establish the baseline against which subsequent science-policy gaps are measured
  • Caste System, Greatest Curse of India
    • "In the words of our Prime Minister Nehru – "there can be no equality of status and opportunity within its framework, nor can there be political democracy and much less economic democracy." — Kulkarni mobilises Nehru's authority for the essay's closing demand
    • "Between these two conceptions, conflict is inherent. Only one of them can survive" (J. Nehru, 'Discovery of India')." — the Discovery of India citation seals the argument that caste and democracy cannot coexist
  • Censorship and the Law of Inexorability
    • "That it was banned by the government run by Jawaharlal Nehru, the quintessential liberal, makes the assault on creative freedom even more deplorable." — Nehru's censorship act is used to show that restrictions on artistic freedom are not unique to authoritarian governments — even liberal ones capitulate
  • Economic Reforms In India: Where Are We And Where Do We Go?
    • "He was associated with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as early as 1938 when he served with him in the National Planning Committee." — Nehru is invoked to situate Shroff within the intellectual milieu of Indian economic planning before the two diverged
  • The Education of the Electorate
    • "His only claim was that he could see Pandit Nehru at any time of the day without a formal engagement for an interview!" — The candidate's boasted access to Nehru is used to satirise the patronage-driven rather than merit-driven selection of political representatives
  • For Freedom, Farm and Family
    • "we have come to feel that as long as Mr Nehru is there, none of us need worry about anything." — Rajagopalachari's critique of citizen complacency — Nehru's prestige becomes the symptom of lost democratic habit
  • Forty-Three Years of Independence
    • "Jawaharlal Nehru made his famous speech wherein he referred to India keeping her tryst with destiny" — Palkhivala opens by invoking the founding moment of independence through Nehru's voice
    • "I would be dishonouring the memory of Pandit Nehru and of his mentor, Mahatma Gandhi, if I try to be economical with the truth." — Palkhivala pledges fidelity to Nehru's legacy as his warrant for frank criticism