How Did Nehru Deal with the Economic and Social Problems that India Faced?
In what ways and with what success did Nehru deal with the economic and social problems facing India?
Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress and later India’s first prime minister, led the Congress Party to victory in India’s first three general elections. Nehru was born in 1889, educated in England and then returned back to India. In the 1920´s he travelled around India and was alarmed by the Indian people suffering from poverty and oppression. Inspired by his travelling around the world he had an idea that socialism could be the solution to the economic and social problems in India. Mohandas Gandhi was his close confidant and successor. For Nehru human rights and liberty were valuable ideas, which inspired his ideas of a secular Indian democracy. In 17 years, serving as a prime minister of India Nehru announced several policies to improve the social and economic environment. Nehru, as a key member of the Congress Party, was responsible for the Constitution established in 1950. India and Nehru were facing several social problems, such as the traditional caste system, religious minorities and ethnicity issues, gender inequality, political extremism and local languages. His aim was to create a welfare state, in order to raise the standard of living people in India, but he believed that India could improve socially only through economic development. There were many economic problems like unemployment, low life expectancy, poverty and a lack of efficiency, due to dominating agriculture and a lack of industry.
In the early 1900´s India was facing a very high level of poverty, which caused the low life expectancy and high infant mortality. Poverty was caused by a huge unemployment and lack of educated people. Inspired by the Soviet Union achievement of rapid industrial growth, Nehru believed that a similar system could help India of exiting from poverty; and introduced Centralized planning to stimulate India’s economic development. However, only
Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress and later India’s first prime minister, led the Congress Party to victory in India’s first three general elections. Nehru was born in 1889, educated in England and then returned back to India. In the 1920´s he travelled around India and was alarmed by the Indian people suffering from poverty and oppression. Inspired by his travelling around the world he had an idea that socialism could be the solution to the economic and social problems in India. Mohandas Gandhi was his close confidant and successor. For Nehru human rights and liberty were valuable ideas, which inspired his ideas of a secular Indian democracy. In 17 years, serving as a prime minister of India Nehru announced several policies to improve the social and economic environment. Nehru, as a key member of the Congress Party, was responsible for the Constitution established in 1950. India and Nehru were facing several social problems, such as the traditional caste system, religious minorities and ethnicity issues, gender inequality, political extremism and local languages. His aim was to create a welfare state, in order to raise the standard of living people in India, but he believed that India could improve socially only through economic development. There were many economic problems like unemployment, low life expectancy, poverty and a lack of efficiency, due to dominating agriculture and a lack of industry.
In the early 1900´s India was facing a very high level of poverty, which caused the low life expectancy and high infant mortality. Poverty was caused by a huge unemployment and lack of educated people. Inspired by the Soviet Union achievement of rapid industrial growth, Nehru believed that a similar system could help India of exiting from poverty; and introduced Centralized planning to stimulate India’s economic development. However, only