Module 8: An argument for modernization and development
  Lecture 23: Modernization and Development in Post-independence India: Nehruvian Model of Industrial Socialism

Continuation of British policy

There was no paradigm shift in the development. As a matter of fact, the new Plan showed obeisance to the development activities initiated by the British Government in India. The future planning was to maintain continuity with the past.

In the last four or five decades, there has been considerable industrial development in India, accompanied by urbanisation and expansion of commerce. Large towns and cities have grown and transport and communications have developed extensively. The isolation of the village has been broken and the average citizen lives in an environment significantly different from the one in which he lived and worked fifty or sixty years ago. Indian enterprise has made considerable headway, and the country has now considerable experience in the fields of modern business, industry and finance.