In history
Lal Bahadur Shastri
1904–1966
Prime Minister 1964–66. 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan' bound soldier and farmer into one idea of the national interest; he set the Green Revolution in motion, steered the country through the 1965 war, and governed with an austerity and personal integrity still cited as the standard.
Furthest from the middle on Welfare, toward Expansive state provision.
Where they stand
Lal Bahadur Shastri on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−5.0Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
−5.0State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
−3.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
−5.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
−3.0Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
+2.0Personal autonomyTraditional normsFederalism
+2.0CentreStates
The record, axis by axis
Every placement is scored on what was said and done — manifestos, legislation, the governing record — and calibrated against the same trade-offs the quiz asks about.
Continued Nehruvian planning, but met the 1965 food crisis with a public appeal to skip a meal and PL-480 imports rather than a new entitlement
State-led in form — he created the Food Corporation of India and the Agricultural Prices Commission that MSP descends from — but the Green Revolution and the Amul cooperative model worked through producer price incentives
As Home Minister he circulated the 1961 advice to states that backwardness be assessed on economic rather than caste tests
Secularist who pushed National Integration Council follow-through after the 1964 riots, and after the 1965 war chose a negotiated settlement over territorial claims
Created the CBI in 1963 and modernised the police, but resigned as Railway Minister over an accident and governed a war without emergency powers or censorship
Personally austere and observant, with no social-reform programme; most of this axis's issue space was not live in his time
Defused the 1965 anti-Hindi agitation by conceding that English would continue as long as non-Hindi states wanted it
And where do you stand?
Answer the same trade-offs yourself and get your seven readings, on the scales you just read.
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