Nehru and the congress economic policies

This book presents a systematic study of the impact of Jawaharlal Nehru on the evolution of Congress economic policies from the 1920s onwards. It deals with his efforts to combine what was relevant in the legacy left by Naoroji, Ranade, Gokhale, Tilak and others with new elements like socialism, planning. public sector, and a just international economic order. Nehru emerges as a great teacher and campaigner during the freedom struggle and after. The book deals with the problems faced by him in his attempts to make India's political freedom secure and meaningful by laying the foundation of an industrial economy.
The story of India's growing friendship and economic co-operation with the Soviet Union, falsifying many a belief and theory propagated by Western economists and their allies that a neocolonial socio-economic order was the inescapable fate of any newly liberated country, is told to bring out the basic differences between the two competing world systems. It also highlights the elements which have brought India and the Soviet Union together and made them co-fighters for world peace, a new world economic order and against neocolonialism.
The book should interest the general reader as well as the scholar. As far as possible, the various viewpoints presented in it are in the words of their protagonists. It is a timely publication marking as it does the 40th anniversary of India's Independence and the birth centenary of Nehru.