Re: ‘Indian air force a third of China’s’
what the two of you are saying about Nehru is not mutually exclusive. He was smart guy, made mistakes and a lot of good too. Had some fixed notions and held his own amongst other giants of his time such as Gandhiji, Patel and others.
How can we second guess now the circumstances of then?
Yes his socialist policies in hindsight and in IMO also held back India but may be just may be that Indians of that time weren't really ready to come out of the forced docility of centuries of slavery and things had to proceed a bit slow