The “Nehruvian consensus” facilitated India’s democratic maturation and accommodated the country’s many diverse interests, without permitting any one group or section to dominate the nascent nation-state. It is fashionable today to decry Nehruvian socialism as a corrupt and inefficient system that condemned India to many years of slow economic growth.
“尼赫鲁共识”促进了印度民主的成熟，协调了印度的多样化利益，没有让任何一个群体或部分主宰这个方兴未艾的民族国家。今天，很多人指责尼赫鲁社会主义是一个腐败而低效的制度，导致印度多年来经济增长低迷。但其核心是这样一种信念：在这片极端贫困和不公平之地，政府政策的目标必须是改善最贫困、最无助、最边缘人群的福利。