Abstract:
No account of the rise of India to modem nationhood can be complete without taking into account the contribution of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first prime-minister. This brief paper seeks to analyse Nehru's role as the builder of modem India in four distinct fields viz. the establishment of parliamentary democracy, building a modem industrial, welfare (socialist) state, setting the foundations of a secular polity and development of science.
