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Nehruvian

Nehruvian adjective: of or relating to Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964, and his policies.

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.
    • ‘India's villages are the colonies of the city,’ Singh often complained about Nehruvian India.2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 400
    • 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.2023, Zareer Masani, “From Bengal to Bollywood”, in Literary Review, number 520

Forms of Nehruvian

comparativemore Nehruvian
superlativemost Nehruvian

Origin of Nehruvian

From Nehru + -v- + -ian.

Words formed from Nehruvian

  • Nehruvian socialism

Questions about Nehruvian

What does Nehruvian mean?
Nehruvian means of or relating to Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964, and his policies.
What part of speech is Nehruvian?
Nehruvian is an adjective.

Words near Nehruvian in the dictionary

  1. Nehrings
  2. Nehru
  3. Nehru jacket
  4. Nehru jackets
  5. Nehrus
  6. Nehruvian
  7. Nehushtan
  8. Nehushtans
  9. NEI
  10. Nei Hu
  11. Nei Menggu

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