One thing all education ministers under Nehru aimed to do-make Indians doubt ancient values

The Nehruvian Consensus propagated the ideals of socialism, secularism and non-alignment that manifested in every aspect of Indian life and institutions. Nehru kept himself away from religion and claimed to be a humanist. He wrote, The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests. The Nehruvian Consensus which moved the…