Describe Nehru's vision of India of the future
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Jawaharlal Nehru, throughout his days of the freedom struggle, was among a small band of leaders who strove not only for the country’s liberation from the yoke of colonialism but also had a socio-economic vision of independent India. In fact, he was the inheritor of the intellectual legacy of the visionaries from Rammohun Roy and Dadabhai Naoroji to Mahatma Gandhi, as it appears from the works of Prof Bipan Chandra. In his presidential addresses from the Lahore session of the Congress onwards, we find Nehru’s great endeavour to develop this vision and make it intelligible to the people at large. He struggled hard to concretise it during his leadership of the National Planning Committee of the Congress. It is no exaggeration to say that it was these efforts of his that attracted the toiling and exploited masses to the Congress. Archival records and private papers show that Gandhiji always stood by him and it was his support that enabled Nehru to weather the attacks and difficulties.