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What policies and with what success did Nehru implemented?

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In what ways and with what success did Nehru deal with the economic and social problems facing India?
Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress and later India’s first prime minister, led the Congress Party to victory in India’s first three general elections. Nehru was born in 1889, educated in England and then returned back to India. In the 1920´s he travelled around India and was alarmed by the Indian people suffering from poverty and oppression. Inspired by his travelling around the world he had an idea that socialism could be the solution to the economic and social problems in India. Mohandas Gandhi was his close confidant and successor. For Nehru human rights and liberty were valuable ideas, which inspired his ideas of …show more content…

It was said that treating people as ‘untouchables ‘ will lead to prosecution, but still only few people were charged.
The reality was worse than expected, as the progress in removing the discrimination was very slow. In rural areas, acts of brutal violence against scheduled castes continued to occur.
The issue of gender equality in India furthermore alarmed Nehru. During the partition of India, thousands of women were killed, raped, abandoned or forcibly married to their abductors. An approximate amount of 75 000 women were taken from Muslim, Sikhs and Hindu groups. The government decided to bring the women back to where they belong, and by 1948 Indian authorities had located 12500 women and restored their families. 6 years later the forcible repatriation was abandoned. By many religious groups women were perceived as weak and subsidiary. Male domination was easily seen in society, male could marry a few women who had no right to divorce. Daughters received dowry when they were getting married, but they had no right for any kind of inheritance after receiving it. As a result women became very dependent on men. Nehru saw this urgent problem and included gender equality in the constitution. In 1950’s Nehru introduced the Hindu Code Bill, stating women as equal in the Indian society. Consequently Nehru was facing opposition from Hindu traditionalists and Conservative members of Congress, who were saying that the

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