| Subject: | Political Science |
| Title: | The Lost Legacy of a Development Perspective in India |
| Author(s): | Dr. Andem Madhusudhan Reddy |
| Published on: | 30th March 2025 |
| Published by: | Lyceum India |
| Name of the Journal: | Lyceum India Journal of Social Sciences |
| ISSN/E-ISSN: | 3048-6513 |
| Volume & Issue: | Volume: 1, Issue: 6 |
| Pages: | 54-58 |
| Original DOI (if any): | 10.5281/zenodo.15077715 |
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| Abstract: | The early rulers of independent India to consciously avoided extremes of any ideological moorings and tried to reconcile and accommodate different pulls and pressures. The state was sought to be arbiter and tool for achieving and attaining the goal of nation building and economic development. These factors placed India in a unique situation of having the socialistic pattern of social order to be its achievable goal with all its welfare orientation. In this context, the role played by Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in designing and shaping of the Indian development perspective and more particularly the drafting of the Indian constitution by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar keeping those values in perspective, is worth mentioning in the neo-liberal era of fast changing global world order in which state has been made subservient to the market since the late 1980s. my paper tries to analyse the factors and influences that compelled the Indian State to be a social democratic state and its lost legacy in the overarching era of neoliberal globalized world order. |
| Keywords: | Socialist pattern of development, Neoliberalism, Nehru, Ambedkar and Gandhi |
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