Jawaharlal Nehru Biography and Works.

Son of Swaroop Rani and Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 19, 180, an Allahabad. Motilal Nehru was a wealthy lawyer and a prominent leader of the Indian independence movement.

Often referred as Panditji or affectionately Chacha Nehru by children, Nehru was the first Prime Minister of independent India from 1947 until he died on May 27, 1964.

He established the parliamentary government and became noted for his ‘neutralist’ policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s.

The Nehru family belonged to the saraswat Brahmin caste. Nehru graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University and came back to India in 1912.

In 1916, by his parents’ arrangement, he married seventeen-year-old Kamala.

He became the top political leader of the Indian National Congress Party along with his associate Mahatma Gandhi.

Nehru and his family followed Gandhi and abandoned fashionable British clothes and expensive possessions. Nehru and his family adopted the native language of Hindu or Hindustani for their common use.

Nehru used to wear a khadi kurta and a Gandhi cap as an Indian nationalist uniform. When Nehru’s father joined the Swaraj Party in opposition to Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru did not join his father and stayed with Mahatma Gandhi. Together they led the nation of India to independence in 1947.

Nehru signed the first constitution of independent India in 1949. He was an outstanding public speaker.

Trivia

He was one of the founders of the international Non-Aligned Movement.

Quote

“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.”