The current volume of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru covers the period from 1 February to 31 May 1955. … This is a period marked by some seminal developments within India as well as within the world community. At the Avadi session of the Indian National Congress….Nehru (had) set in motion a novel programme… with the objective of creating… a "socialistic pattern of society"… (One of the) concrete initiatives (taken up) at this ...