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Jawaharlal Nehru (/ˈneɪru, ˈnɛru/;[1] Hindi: [ˈdʒəʋɑːɦəɾˈlɑːl ˈneːɦɾuː] (
listen); 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat and author who was a central figure in India during the middle third of the 20th century. He was a principal leader of the Indian independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, Nehru served as the country's prime minister for 17 years. He promoted parliamentary democracy, secularism, and science and technology during the 1950s, powerfully influencing India's arc as a modern nation. In international affairs, he steered India clear of the two blocks of the cold war. A widely admired author, his books written in prison, such as Letters from a Father to His Daughter (1929), An Autobiography (1936), and The Discovery of India (1946), were read around the world.
The son of Motilal Nehru, a prominent lawyer and Indian nationalist, Jawaharlal Nehru was educated in England—at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and trained in the law at the Inner Temple, becoming a barrister. He returned to India, enrolled at the Allahabad High Court and gradually began to take an interest in national politics, which eventually became a full-time occupation. A committed nationalist from his teenage years, he was a rising figure in Indian politics during the upheavals of the 1910s. He became the leader of the left-wing faction of the Indian National Congress during the 1920s, and eventually of the entire Congress with the support of Mahatma Gandhi, who would designate Nehru as his political heir. As Congress president in 1929, Nehru called for complete independence from the British Raj.
Nehru and the Congress dominated Indian politics during the 1930s. Support for Nehru's idea of a secular nation-state led to the Congress sweeping the 1937 provincial elections and forming the governments in several provinces. The progress was set back somewhat in the aftermath of the Quit India Movement in 1942, during which the British imprisoned the senior Congress leaders, and for a time crushed the organization itself. Nehru, who had reluctantly heeded Gandhi's call for immediate independence, for he had desired to support the Allied war effort during World War II, came out of a lengthy prison term to a much altered political landscape. The Muslim League under his old Congress colleague and now opponent, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, had come to dominate Muslim politics in India. After the Congress won the provincial elections in 1946, Nehru became the interim prime minister of India, though the League, which had won all the seats assigned to Muslims, did not join the government.
Upon India's independence on August 15, 1947, Nehru gave a speech, A Tryst with Destiny, which has been widely admired. He was sworn in as the Dominion of India's prime minister and raised the Indian flag at the Red fort in Delhi. On January 26, 1950, when India became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, Nehru became the Republic of India's first prime minister. He embarked on an ambitious program of economic, social, and political reforms. He oversaw India's transition from a colony to a republic, promoting a pluralistic multi-party democracy. In foreign affairs, he played a leading role in establishing the Non-Aligned Movement, a group of nations that did not seek membership in the two main ideological blocks of the 1950s.
Under Nehru's leadership, the Congress emerged as a catch-all party, dominating national and state-level politics and winning elections in 1951, 1957 and 1962. Nehru remained popular with the Indian people despite India's defeat in the 1962 Sino-Indian War for which he was widely blamed. He died as a result of a stroke on May 27, 1964. His birthday is celebrated as Children's Day in India.
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Letter of Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
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