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Despite his obsession with the central planning style of USSR, he is fully aware of the limitations of political democracy in the USSR and reasserts his faith in the ideas of social democracy. Despite the future stance of his own daughter, he finds America as a natural parallel to his transgeographic Indian identity.

He cannot stop quoting from Western literature and his adherence to Cambridge encyclopaedic knowledge remains unwavered, but his grounding in Indian framework seems weak at best - his ideas of India rely on Gandhi - whom he acknowledges as a populist.

More than a politician, Nehru often sounds like a seasoned socioligst - when he predicts that individualism would continue to keep birth-rates low in the developed world and the communal thinking of the East would witness shooting birth rates.