The effect was many things--proto-guru, neo-Nehru, bandwidth bobo, Euro-weenie--they all definitely said New Economy.
Yet Nehru's fear that the reorganisation would harden regionalist sentiments has also been partly justified.
Opposed by India's then prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, the arrangement has proved remarkably effective.
He also sits on the review committee of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
The accommodation crisis dates back to 1964, when India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died.
Mukesh shunned a tuxedo for an Indian Nehru jacket with Nita wearing an exquisite Indian sari.
Nehru and his heirs, relatively secure in their power, failed to deal adequately with those imperatives.
It ended, in humiliating betrayal for Mr Nehru and India, in the war of 1962.
Nehru's Congress party, they point out, had no interest in bringing Bose back from exile.
Between 1947 and 1989, the country was ruled almost continuously by the Nehru-Gandhi family.
In the first, under the founding prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, India pursued relatively liberal economic policies.
The leaders of the Congress party, including Jawaharlal Nehru, were insensitive to these fears.
"This is a propitious beginning, " says Aswini Ray, a political scientist at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University.
But philosophically, they were more likely to wear paisley shirts and Nehru jackets than suits and fedoras.
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During the 1950s his grandfather served as Nehru's bugler, announcing the prime minister at rallies across India.
His father, Rajiv Gandhi, grandmother, Indira Gandhi, and great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, were all prime ministers of India.
After Rajiv was himself assassinated in 1991, the Congress floundered as it lost a Nehru-Gandhi to lead it.
Rahul Gandhi, of the influential Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and tipped as a future leader, refused to join the cabinet.
Shahabpur falls within the first parliamentary constituency of Jawaharlal Nehru, Congress's tallest leader and India's first prime minister.
Any big metropolis can tap a central fund, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, for new infrastructure.
Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, in Delhi, India.
The only child of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi was herself elected prime minister in 1966.
Nehru, in many ways, marked the end of empire and here again Mr Cannadine presents the division too clearly.
In 1962, he represented Glasgow Sikhs at a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Nehru during his visit to Scotland.
She retorts, with some justification, that upper-caste Indian leaders, such as the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, have parks and museums aplenty.
Mr Das, on the other hand, thinks that capitalism will cure many of the ills that Nehru's socialism compounded.
To one side stood a photo of a youthful Harouni in a receiving line shaking the hand of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Although the Nehru-Gandhi family was not, as Ms Singh states several times, aristocratic, they and their circle could certainly be snooty.
Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Don Stephen Senanayake in Sri Lanka both envisioned secular republics embracing different races, tongues and faiths.
On Tuesday, a footbridge under construction collapsed near the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium - the main Games venue - injuring 27 workers.
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