Reassessing Nehruvian policies: Growth, education, and social change

The policies of the first decade-and-a half of planned development are better characterised as Nehruvian Humanism

The development policy implemented in the Nehru era (1950-64) has been the subject of criticism not just in politics, but also in the performance assessments presented by some economists. A sharp contrast is often drawn between the growth performance of about 4 per cent in the Nehru era and the 6 per cent experienced since the 1980s. But do note that the 4 per cent growth experienced in the Nehru era was a major structural change in an economy whose growth in the previous 100 years had been under 1 per cent. The comparable data available in the World Bank