Nehru on parliamentary democracy

  Nehru was a great champion of democracy and founder of the modern Indian democratic system with help of Dr. Bheem Rao Ambedakar, the father of Indian Constitution. Throughout his life, he laid emphasis on importance of democracy and desired that independent India should have democratic process of self-governance. He grown in the Western democratic world and he absorbed them since childhood.  Democratic principles were his philosophical and spiritual reality and later developed as concepts of modern democratic thought. 

 He though that the spiritualisation of a social process was, synonymous with the maximisation of democracy within it. His democratic spititualisation was not religious but the spirit inherited in the democracy as the religious respects, social equality, peaceful power sharing and power transfer, peoples democratic participation etc.  He read extensively democratic philosophers and wrote several writing on democratic philosophies. For him, democracy was an intellectual condition; it was primarily a way of life, based on the hypothesis that the freedom was integral part to the being of man. He stated that the state was born to make a reality of the freedom of its citizens. It served to counteract the evil influences of lower instincts of the individual in the social process.  

 Nehru was a true democrat and never doubted the soundness of democracy. Nehru's concept of democracy had specific implications. In the early years of liberation struggle, democracy was self-rule or a responsible government. Later, under the socialist influences he saw democracy as a one of the ways for the equality of opportunity to all in the economic and political field and for the individual to grow and develop to the best of his personality.