Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) in Indian History:
- Jawaharlal Nehru was the son of Motilal Nehru and Swarupa Rani.
- ‘Jawahar’ means Jewel.
- He was born in 1886 November 14.
- Vijayalekshmi Pandit and Krishna Harthising
were the sisters of Nehru. - Nehru became a member of Theosophical Society at the age of 13.
- He went to London in 1905 and joined the Haro Public School, Then Trinity College in Cambridge and finally at the Inner Temple.
- He returned India in 1912 and started practice at the Alahabad High Court.
- Nehru attended the Bankipore Congress Session in 1912.
- He met Gandhi in 1916 at the Lucknow session.
- Nehru became the General Secretary of INC in 1923.
- Nehru became the president of INC for the first time 1929. Poorna Swaraj Resolution was passed at this session (Lahore).
- 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).
- Nehru started a newspaper called ‘National Herald’.
- Nehru headed the interim ministry formed in 1946 September.
- He became the first Prime Minister of India after independence in 1947.
- Nehru has the largest term as India’s Prime Minister.
- Important works of Nehru are ‘Glimpses of World History’,‘The Unity of India’, ‘The Discovery of India’ ‘Bunch of Old letters’.
- ‘‘An Autobiography’’ is the autobiography of Nehru.
- ‘‘………. 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’s main contribution to the evolution of Indias foreign policy was the acceptance of nonallignment.
- Non-alignment meant taking independent decisions on international issues with a sense of neutrality.
- Nehru visited China in 1954, both the countries signed the Panch Sheel.
- ‘I want the cultures of all lands to be brought to my house as freely as possible’ He said
- The expression ‘‘Tryst with destiny’ was first used by Jawaharlal Nehru on the Occasion of India attaining freedom.
- There will be no freedom in this country or in the world so long as a single human being is unfree. Jawaharlal Nehru.
- 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.
- Nehru was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1955.
- Nehru got placed in Indial Postal Stamp in 1964.
- India government began to distribute International Award for International understanding in 1965 U Thant got it for the first time.
- First woman to get the award was Mother Theresa (1969)
- Nehru died on 27 may 1964 at the age of 75.
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