- Born
- Died
- Nicknames
- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
- Chacha Nehru
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889, in Allahabad, India. He was the son of Swaroop Rani and Motilal Nehru, a wealthy lawyer and a prominent leader of the Indian independence movement. 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 17-year-old Kamala from a Kashmiri business family in Delhi. He became the top political leader of the Indian National Congress Party along with his mentor, Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Nehru and his family made transformations in their upper class lifestyle. They 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 also wore 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 stayed with 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. He served as the first Prime Minister of India from 1947 until May 27, 1964, the day he died. He was one of the founders of the international non-aligned movement.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov - Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian independence activist, and subsequently, the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. He emerged as an eminent leader of the Indian independence movement and served India as Prime Minister from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in 1964. He has been described by the Amar Chitra Katha as the architect of India.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- SpouseKamala Kaul(February 8, 1916 - February 28, 1936) (her death, 1 child)
- Children
- Eloborative speeches at functions and rallies.
- First prime minister of independent India (1947-1964).
- His birthday (November 14) is celebrated as 'Children's Day' in India.
- Arrested by the British as a leader of India's fight for independence.
- Served a total of ten years in jail from 1921 to 1945.
- In prison he wrote "Glimpses of World History", a widely-read book.
- [address to India on the death of Mohandas K. Gandhi] Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives, and there is darkness everywhere. I do not know what to tell you and how to say it.
- [Aug. 16, 1947, on the eve of India's independence from Great Britain] At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. 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.
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