Nehru's Vision of Modern India

Jawaharlal Nehru was one of the greatest freedom fighter and builder and architect of modern India. From the very beginning he tried to understand the glorious past of India which was very much reflected in his writings such as The Discovery of India, The Glimpses of World History and his Autobiography. Nehru had a scientific approach to India's political, social and economic problems. His scientific attitude made him an exponent of modernism. His attempts in the direction of social, political, economic change and advocacy of secularism proceeded from his passionate desire to make India a modern nation. He pleaded for dynamic activity for building a new India with its foundations in scientific outlook and rational thinking. Nehru had a good understanding of the dominant current of International policies. He was sensitive to development in other countries and he wanted India to renounce its attitudes of isolation and lead the other Asian and African countries in fulfilling the desires of both. He wanted the development of representative institutions, parliamentary democracy, planned social and economic change, socialism and internationalism. It is in this context that I am looking his vision.