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.