He led the process of building new institutions of democratic governance, a new culture of parliamentary democracy, also a new policy platform for the reconstruction of a poor and backward economy wholly incapable of meeting the aspirations of a newly liberated nation.

He was also the paramount guide to establishing independent India’s relations with the rest of the world on the principles of peace and universal brotherhood, because of which India’s prestige in the comity of nations rose enormously. All this earned him the honorific of ‘Architect of Modern India’.