| Gandhi |
Nehru |
| Favoured small scale and cottage industries including Khadi. |
Supported heavy and large scale industrialization. |
| Gandhi considered the British parliament like a sterile woman and prostitute. |
To Nehru, Parliamentary system was the ideal state craft and democratic practices. |
| In a stateless society of Gandhi's dream, the individual enjoys unlimited, unbridled freedom where no outside authority will interfere with his life. |
Nehru was convinced that in order to distribute freedom equally to all the members of the society, it had to be rationed and each individual was to be given his legitimate share. |
| Justified his suspension on the plea of Chauri-Chaura Incident. |
Strongly criticised the suspension of non-cooperation movement by Gandhi in 1922. |
| Nonviolence was the very breath of his life. |
Did not accept non-violence as a method for all situations.
For the preservation of law and order in a country coercive authority of the state is indispensable. |
| Staunch critic of western civilization based on technology. |
Enamored of western science and technology. |
| Wanted to give a negative, passive role to the state. |
Wanted the state machinery to gear up to achieve the socialistic goals. |
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