In 1947 India was caught in two major global movement when it gained independence. One was the scientific expansion and modernism. The other was the global socialist and communist movement. What ever Nehru adopted and borrowed does not mean that we Indians dont have anything of our own.

Try reading Sita Ram Goel on communism. He is one person who has described his encounter into communism and out of it.
http://www.voi.org/books/hsus/ch5.htm

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Though Communism in India cannot be characterised as a residue of the British rule, the British Government did make some substantial contributions to its growth. In the �thirties, that Government encouraged non-Communist revolutionaries in its jails to read Communist literature. This was done in order to wean them away from �terrorism.� Many of them came out as convinced Communists while still wearing the halo of national heroes. Again, during the Second World War, that Government partronised, financed and fraternised with the Communist Party of India and helped it attain the stature of an independent political party.

Ideologically, Communism in India is, in several respects, a sort of extension of Macaulayism, a residue of the British rule. That is why Communism is strongest today in those areas where Macaulayism had earlier spread its widest spell. That is why Macaulayism has always been on the defensive and apologetic vis-a-vis Communism. Macaulayism has always tried to understand and explain away the misdeeds of Communism in this country. It has sadly deplored, if not condoned, as misguided idealism even the most heinous crimes of the Communists.

http://voiceofdharma.org/books/pipp/
PERVERSION OF INDIA'S POLITICAL PARLANCE By Sita Ram Goel

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http://voiceofdharma.org/books/pipp/ch5.htm

Leftist language first came to India as the language of Communist imperialism. Its main spokesman was M.N. Roy. In his "India in Transition", published in 1922, he laid down practically all fundamental formulations which, in due course, became the stock-in-trade of India's Leftist parties. The language of these formulations is still the language of Leftism.

It will facilitate an understanding of Roy's formulations if we summarise briefly the background of Indian nationalism as it had developed prior to that period.

# The Western-oriented Indian intellectuals alone were pioneers of progress. "The only section of the people showing any sign of life was the modern intellectuals educated in Western methods and thoughts. These denationalised intellectuals were instrumental in bringing to India for the first time in her long eventful history, political patriotism." (ibid., pp. 383-84, Italics added).


# the British Government was the best government which India had ever had in her long history. "This struggle of the radical intelligentsia was not against an effete and antiquated political institution but for the democratisation of the existing government which...was the most advanced that the country had till then." (ibid., p. 384).