Jawaharlal Nehru Detail
About Jawaharlal Nehru Detail
See Nehru main entry. Nehrus Non Aligned Movement positioned India between the US and Soviet blocs. He founded the Indian Institutes of Technology, transforming Indian education. His economic planning emphasized heavy industry and self sufficiency, creating the License Raj that constrained Indian growth for decades. Nehrus daughter Indira Gandhi served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984, when she was assassinated by her own bodyguards.
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