(1889-1964) Leader of the Indian National Congress, and the first Prime Minister of independent India. He was the architect of India's developmental policy in the immediate post-independent era. Influenced by Marxism, liberalism, and Fabian socialism, Nehru was a modernizer who wanted India to become an industrialized and economically self-reliant nation. Impressed with the rates of economic growth in the Soviet Union, Nehru tried to combine markets and a planned economy in a model of mixed-economy for India, with a significant regulatory and productive role for the state. In foreign policy, Nehru was one of the initiators of the non-aligned movement, and for India's friendly relations with the Soviet Union (see also panscheel).
— Shirin Rai
