socialist. He believed in the need for a strong, centralised government and a planned economy, but he also recognised the importance of private enterprise and the market in driving economic growth and development. Nehru also believed that protecting domestic industries would help to promote industrialisation and economic development in India, and he implemented a number of protectionist policies during his time in office.

He saw such government intervention as a way to modernise the Indian economy which had been left impoverished by decades