View: Some useful economic history lessons on how we manage to handicap ourselves

PM Nehru viewed economic self-sufficiency as necessary for the preservation of political freedom. He held that depending on imports for railways, airplanes and guns amounted to being slaves of foreign countries. “Whenever these countries wished they could stop sending these things … we would thus remain slaves.”

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