ABSTRACT
Jawaharlal Nehru as the administrator had a characteristic style of leadership that showed up clearly in the operations of the bureaucracy and generated separate weaknesses and strengths in the Indian ability to both formulate and implement effective policy. Nehru's involvement in substantive government work was remarkable; he was never in possession of less than two government portfolios at a time, as prime minister and foreign minister. Nehru's interventionist policy leadership goes beyond tradition, to Nehru's own political personality and the special demands of the times in which he lived. Nehru's arbitrary approach to the management of human resources over the entire bureaucracy was duplicated on a smaller scale in his relationship with the secretaries. After Nehru's death Lal Bahadur Shastri, through Congress and Kamaraj Syndicate machinations, gained the prime ministership.
