What were the three components of agricultural transformation strategy favoured by Nehru?
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Contribution # 1. National Philosophy of India:
For Jawaharlal Nehru, every State needed a ‘National Philosophy or ‘national ideology’ to hold it together and give it coherence and sense of direction and purpose. In his view the need for such a philosophy was particularly great in a new country like India whose people were divided on religious, ethnic, linguistic and other grounds, economically undeveloped, socially static and politically inexperienced.
As such they desperately needed a shared public philosophy to unit them and provide them with a set of clearly defined ‘goals’ or ‘objectives’. As India’s first Prime Minister he thought it one of his most important task to develop such a national philosophy.
Contribution # 2. National Unity:
For Nehru national unity or what he sometimes called national integration was the sine qua non of national independence. ‘We must give topmost priority to the development of a sense of unity in India because these are critical days’.
Over the centuries India had fallen prey to foreign rule because of such factors as the lack of a strong central government underpinned by a nationwide structure of authority, narrow regional loyalties, divisions among its people sometimes so deep that they did not mind inviting outside help to settle old scores, and the absence of pubic spirit and patriotism.
Contribution # 3. Parliamentary Democracy:
Parliamentary democracy was the second ‘national goal’ for Nehru. He was convinced that India needed a democratic form of government not only because the latter respected the Individual and was inherently desirable, but also because a diverse, vast and divided country could not be held together and governed in any other way.
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national philosophy of india
national unity
parliamentary democracy