Nehruvian

English

Etymology

From Nehru +‎ -v- +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Nehruvian (comparative more Nehruvian, superlative most Nehruvian)

1. Of or relating to Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964, and his policies. [from 20th c.]
   • 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 400:

     ‘India's villages are the colonies of the city,’ Singh often complained about Nehruvian India.

   • 2023, Zareer Masani, “From Bengal to Bollywood”, in Literary Review, number 520:

     Pakistan took a quite different route, pursuing a Western-oriented, free-market approach at a time when India was shackled by Nehruvian autarky, strict state controls and Soviet-style five-year plans.

Derived terms

• Nehruvian socialism