31 Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
Nehru has the largest term as
India¡¦s Prime Minister.
Nehru¡¦s main contribution to the evolution of Indias foreign policy was the
acceptance of nonallignment.
¡¥I want the cultures of all lands to be brought to my house as
freely as possible¡¦ He said
There will be no freedom in this country or in the world so long as a single
human being is unfree. Jawaharlal Nehru.
He became the first Prime Minister of India after
independence in 1947.
Non-alignment meant taking independent decisions on
international issues with a sense of neutrality.
¡¥¡¥An Autobiography¡¦¡¦
is the autobiography of Nehru.
He returned India in 1912 and started practice at
the Alahabad High Court.
It is not so much the existence of a nation that counts but what the nation that counts but what the nation does during
various periods of existence Nehru.
Important works of Nehru are
¡¥Glimpses of World History¡¦,¡¥The Unity of India¡¦, ¡¥The Discovery of India¡¦ ¡¥Bunch of Old letters¡¦.
Nehru started a newspaper called
¡¥National Herald¡¦.
Nehru got placed in
Indial Postal Stamp in 1964.
¡¥¡¥.......... At the stroke of the mid night hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.....
...... these are the words of Nehru.
Nehru became the General Secretary of INC in
1923.
Nehru headed the interim ministry formed in
1946 September.
Nehru died on 27 may
1964 at the age of 75.
India government began to distribute International
Award for International understanding in 1965 U Thant got it for the first time.
Nehru was awarded the
Bharat Ratna in 1955.
He went to London in 1905 and joined the Haro Public School, Then Trinity College in
Cambridge and finally at the Inner Temple.
Nehru attended the Bankipore
Congress Session in 1912.
¡¥Jawahar¡¦ means
Jewel.
He was born in 1886 November 14. Vijayalekshmi Pandit and
Krishna Harthising were the sisters of Nehru.
Nehru became the President of INC for the largest number of times
Lahore (1929), Lucknow (1935), Faizpur (1936), New Delhi (1951), Hyderabad (1953) and Kalyan (1954).
He met Gandhi in 1916 at the
Lucknow session.
First woman to get the award was
Mother Theresa (1969)
Jawaharlal Nehru was the son of
Motilal Nehru and Swarupa Rani.
The expression ¡¥¡¥Tryst with destiny¡¦ was first used by Jawaharlal Nehru on the
Occasion of India attaining freedom.
Nehru visited China in 1954, both the countries signed the
Panch Sheel.
Nehru became the president of INC for the first time 1929.
Poorna Swaraj Resolution was passed at this session (Lahore).
Nehru became a member of
Theosophical Society at the age of 13.
