Scribd
Upload
26 views

Nehru

Uploaded by

Tej Vishwa
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
26 views

Nehru

Uploaded by

Tej Vishwa
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 8

Understanding Jawaharlal

Nehru(1889–1964) and his policies


• Jawaharlal Nehru, was a leader of India’s
nationalist movement and became India’s first
prime minister after its independence.
• In 1919, he joined the Indian National
Congress and joined Indian Nationalist
Movements.
• He was to serve a total of nine sentences,
adding up to more than nine years in jail.
• Became first Prime Minister of Independent
India.
• Nehru's four pillars of domestic policies
were democracy, socialism, unity, and
secularism
Domestic Policy
1. He imparted modern values and thought, stressed
secularism, insisted upon the basic unity of India.
2. In the face of ethnic and religious diversity, he carried India
into the modern age of scientific innovation and technological
progress.
3. He prompted social concern for the marginalized and poor
and respect for democratic values.
4. Nehru reform the antiquated Hindu civil code.
5. Hindu widows could enjoy equality with men in matters of
inheritance and property.
6. Nehru changed Hindu law to criminalize caste discrimination.
7. Established many Indian institutions of higher learning,
including the All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
the Indian Institutes of Technology, and the National
Institutes of Technology,
8. Guaranteed free and compulsory primary education to all of
India's children.
Economic Reforms of Nehru
1. Firm believer in state control over the economic
sectors.
2. His socialist ideals revealed themselves in the
way he introduced laws for land redistribution, in
order to curtail the economic disparity in India
among the landed and the land-less classes.
3. His Economic policy considered to be Socialist in
nature.
4. Key economic reforms was the introduction of the
Five Years Plan in 1951.
It was introduce to determine the mode of
government expenditure and grants in important
development sectors like agriculture, industries
and education.
Nehru's Industrial Policies:
 Nehru was intent to harness and fully exploit the
natural resources of India for the benefit of his
countrymen.
 The main sector he identified was hydroelectricity.
 He constructed a number of dams to achieve that end.
 The dams would not only harness energy, but would
also support irrigation to a great degree.
Nehru considered dams to be the very symbol of
India's collective growth, as they were the platforms
where industrial engineering and agriculture met on a
common platform.
Nehru's Foreign Policy
 Jawaharlal Nehru was supporter of the anti-imperialist
policy.
 He extended his support for the independence of small
and colonized nations of the world.
 One of the prominent architects of the Non-Aligment
Movement (NAM)
 NAM was formed during the Cold War, largely on the
initiative of then-Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito
 The basic concept for the group originated in 1955
during discussions that took place at the Asia-Africa
Bandung Conference held in Indonesia.
 NAM has sought to "create an independent path in world
politics that would not result in member States becoming
pawns in the struggles between the major powers."
 Man behind the design of India’ s Foreign Policy
Panchsheel , or the Five Principles of Peaceful
Co-existence, were first formally enunciated
in the Agreement on Trade and Intercourse
between the Tibet region of China and India
signed on April 29,1954, Agreement based on
the following principles: -

1. Mutual respect for each other’s territorial


integrity and sovereignty,
2. Mutual non-aggression
3. Mutual non-interference,
4. Equality and mutual benefit, and
5. Peaceful co-existence.
Sino-Indian War of 1962
 Roots of the Sino-Indian conflict in 1962
1. The Indian Government had granted asylum to Dalai
Lama after his banishment following the Tibet
uprising in 1959 and it irked China.
2. Boundary disputes over the MacMohan Line in
Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin area in Ladakh,
on the 3,225-kilometre-long disputed border issue.
3. Nehru and his Chinese counterpart, Premiere Zhou
Enlai were unable to reach a political accord.
4. They captured Rezang la in Chushul and Tawang in
Arunachal Pradesh- started on October 20- ended
November 20, 1962

You might also like