Nehruvian
English
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editNehruvian (comparative more Nehruvian, superlative most Nehruvian)
- Of or relating to Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964, and his policies. [from 20th c.]
- 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 400:
- ‘India's villages are the colonies of the city,’ Singh often complained about Nehruvian India.
- 2023, Zareer Masani, “From Bengal to Bollywood”, in Literary Review, number 520:
- Pakistan took a quite different route, pursuing a Western-oriented, free-market approach at a time when India was shackled by Nehruvian autarky, strict state controls and Soviet-style five-year plans.