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His country’s first Prime Minister following independence from British colonial rule in 1947, Nehru chose a democratic socialistic middle way between the capitalist West and the communist Soviet bloc by rejecting both Western liberal economic ideas such as free trade and entrepreneurial individualism and Marxist-Leninist forms of authoritarian collectivism. Promising to safeguard India’s national sovereignty, the charismatic Prime Minister championed a ‘mixed-economy’ approach, which placed the principal means of production into the hands of the state with the expressed goal of ensuring an equitable distribution of the nation’s productive output. Impressed by the idea of Fabians democratic socialism with which he had become acquainted during his university years at Cambridge, Nehru envisioned an India where economic state planning and democracy were seamlessly reconciled.