NEHRUVIANISM & NEHRU’S ‘IDEA OF INDIA’
A lot is commented on Nehru’s so-called ‘Idea of India’ when actually it was nothing but an immature fascination with the Soviet Marxist- Communist system (which laid the foundations of India’s poverty and misery) as something scientific, rational, modern and historically pre- destined; coupled with his fake “secularism”, which had more to do with his disdain for India’s ancient heritage [that actually gave it a national identity], and served his cause of vote-bank politics.
The claim that Nehru’s secularism prevented India from becoming a theocratic Hindu state is totally bogus, because India has been practically secular and highly respectful of other religions for thousands of years, thanks to the tolerant Hindu world-view which, unlike the latter two Abrahamic religions, does not abuse other religions. Secularism was a pressing requirement in the West where the Church had been interfering in the affairs of the State. Such had never been the case in India.
A fair and proper idea of “Nehru’s Idea of India” can be had by going through his blunders detailed under the chapters “Economy”, “Educational & Cultural Mismanagement”, and “Dynacracy & Dictatorial Tendencies” above. Observed Sitaram Goel on ‘Nehruism’:
“Today, I view Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as a bloated Brown Sahib, and Nehruism as the combined embodiment of all the imperialist ideologies, Islam, Christianity, White Man’s Burden, and Communism that have flooded this country in the wake of foreign invasions. And I do not have the least doubt in my mind that if India is to live, Nehruism must die. Of course, it is already dying under the weight of its sins against the Indian people, their country, their society, their economy, their environment, and their culture. What I plead is that a conscious rejection of Nehruism in all its forms will hasten its demise, and save us from the mischief which it is bound to create further if it is allowed to linger.” “It may be remembered that Pandit Nehru was by no means a unique character. Nor is Nehruism a unique phenomenon for that matter. Such weak-minded persons and such subservient thought processes have been seen in all societies that have suffered the misfortune of being conquered and subjected to alien rule for some time . There are always people in all societies who confuse superiority of armed might with superiority of culture, who start despising themselves as belonging to an inferior breed and end by taking to the ways of the conqueror in order to regain self- confidence, who begin finding faults with everything they have inherited from their forefathers, and who finally join hands with every force and factor which is out to subvert their ancestral society. Viewed in this perspective, Pandit Nehru was no more than a self-alienated Hindu, and Nehruism is not much more than Hindu-baiting born out of and sustained by a deep-seated sense of inferiority vis a vis Islam, Christianity, and the modern West .”
Proof of pudding is in the eating; and so what did the Nehru’s “Idea of India” and its implementation during his over-long 17 years of rule delivered for India?— a toxic political (dynastic and undemocratic), economic (socialistic, and poverty-perpetuating), industrial (inefficient and burdensome public and state sector), agricultural (neglected and starved, making India a pathetically poor and hungry nation, and an international beggar), geographic and external security (most borders insecure, and a weak nation unable to defend itself), administrative (incompetent and corrupt babudom), historical (Marxist, Leftist and Negationist distortions), educational (elitist, and no universal literacy), and cultural (no pride in Indian heritage) legacy.
