One reason India did not do well for so long after independence was that it had false heros.
Gandhi held sway on Congress and could hold it to ransom at will. On the treat of fast unto death.
He used that power to the hilt for not letting democratically elected leaders like Bose or Patel preside.
Some of Gandhi's ideas liking shunning modernity (he denied penicillin to his wife and let her die), his opposition to urbanisation (village was his ideal) would caste a long shadow on the policies that independent India adopted.
Gandhi disarmed Hindus.
Hindus totally trusted Gandhi and therefore Congress.
Hindus believed that Congress will represent Hindu interests in the negotiations for partition. But except for Patel, Hindus were totally betrayed by Congress, during partition.
Patel and Ambedkar should have been our biggest Heros post independence, not Nehru and Gandhi.
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