Sorry. Nehru selectively messed with Hindu Personal law, while refusing to change islamic law condemning millions of muslims and women to the tyranny of shariah.
actions speak louder than words. NEHRU INDEED CARRIED OUT LINGUISTIC VIVISECTION TO FURTHER HIS SELFISH AGENDA AND CUT DOWN TO SIZE POTENTIAL CLAIMANTS TO LEADERSHIP. (MADRAS PRESIDENCY WAS REORGANISED TO CUT DOWN C RAJAGOPALACHARI DOWN TO SIZE, BOMBAY PRESIDENCY REORGANIZED TO CUT MORARJI BHAI AND YASHWANTRAO CHAVAN DOWN).
India was helped by western (american aid) for its grain shortage not anything great that nehru did. nehru had a remarkable opportunity to fix age old problems of India (primarily divisiveness). neru exacerbated the differences and was a failure in most areas where he tried to deliver results.
There is a vested interest group at work (neru foundation, dynastywallahs et. al.) that seek to whitewash neru's monumental failures and project him as a great leader which he was not in any sense of the term.
Deliberation has been done on nehru and even raj mohan gandhi (and many of our insightful people) who is sympathetic to neru conclude that Gandhi made a grievous mistake by overruling the demcratic selection of Sardar Patel and making this third rate self serving charlatan, neru, India's first PM.
