IndiaJawaharlal Nehru was the first prime minister of independent India, serving from 1947 to 1964. He promoted parliamentary democracy, secularism, state-led industrial planning and a foreign policy of non-alignment during the Cold War.
In the 12 Axes register, Jawaharlal Nehru leans hardest on Collectivize – Privatize: Collectivize 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.
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Where Jawaharlal Nehru sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Centrist
Federal union with a strong center
Representative Democracy
Built parliamentary democracy with universal suffrage
Liberal
Protected civil liberties with some limits
Cooperation
Co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement
Non-Aggressive
Peaceful coexistence, though Goa was annexed
Multiculturalist
"Unity in diversity" for a plural India
Socialist
Public sector held the commanding heights
Interventionism
Five-Year Plans in a mixed economy
Protectionist
Import substitution and trade controls
Agnostic
Agnostic secularist
Progressive
Reformed Hindu family law
Technological
Promoted dams, steel plants and scientific institutes
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Collectivize – Privatize
On Collectivize – Privatize, Jawaharlal Nehru is at Collectivize 83%. The register median is balanced 50%.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Jawaharlal Nehru is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.britannica.com
Portrait: Harry Pot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
