-- Nehru cost India 50 years of growth. His legacy is a petty dynasty. -- Nehru’s arrogance and his reluctance to share power largely contributed to the alienation of Jinnah and his demand for Pakistan. -- Nehrus foreign policy ended in disaster, and he imposed the stifling permit-licence raj we’re still struggling to dismantle. -- Jawaharlal famously said to J.R.D. Tata, who was resisting the nationalisation of Air India, “Do not speak to me of profit! It’s a dirty word!” -- Nehru’s Soviet sympathies led him in the 1950s to condone both the Russian invasion of Hungary and the Chinese suppression of Tibetan autonomy. -- The Chinese debacle left Nehru’s foreign policy in tatters, while his economic policies resulted in food shortages, industrial stagnation, a huge budget deficit and an increase in the poverty they were supposed to eradicate
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 15:16:21 +0000
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