Pen portrait of jawaharlal nehru biography
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Jawaharlal Nehru - a chronological account
Below fryst vatten a short history of Jawaharlal Nehru
1889 Born 14 November in Allahabad, the son of Motilal andSwaruprani Nehru
1905-7 Harrow School, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex.
1907-10 Trinity College, Cambridge.
1910-12 Inner Temple, London.
1912 - Returned to India. Lawyer, Allahabad High Court.
1913 - Joint sekreterare, Allahabad branch of St John Ambulance Brigade.
1916 - Married, 8 February Kamala Kaul.
1917 - Joined Home Rule League. Daughter, Indira, born 19 November.
1918 - Secretary, Home Rule League.
1919 - Started the newspaper, Independent, with Motilal Nehru.
1920 - Joined the Non-co-operation Movement.
1921 - Arrested 6 månad for participating in the Volunteer Movement and urging the bojkott of the visit of the Prince of Wales to India.
1922 - Released 3 March. Arrested 11 May for picketing cloth shops.
1923- Released 26 January. Elected April Chairman, Allahabad Municipal Boa
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By: Astha Raghav
Jawaharlal Nehru : (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian independence activist and later the first prime minister of India. Considered one of the greatest statesmen of India and of the twentieth century, he was a central figure in Indian politics both before and after independence. He emerged as an eminent leader of the Indian independence movement, serving India as prime minister from its establishment in 1947 as an independent nation, until his death in 1964. He was also known as Pandit Nehru because of his roots in the Kashmiri Pandit community, while Indian children knew him better as Chacha Nehru.
"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals, objective and principles"
- Jawarharlal Nehru
The son of Swarup Rani and Motilal Nehru, a prominent lawyer and
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We Want No Caesars: Nehru’s Warning to Himself
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, was born on 14 November 1889—127 years ago—in Allahabad. In 1907, he began studying at the Trinity College, at Cambridge University. Upon graduating in 1910, he moved to London to train as a barrister. Nehru returned to India in 1912 and dove straight into national politics. His tryst with his destiny as a leader of the Indian freedom movement was perhaps set in stone in 1919—when, while travelling on a train, he overheard British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer boasting about leading the Jallianwallah Bagh massacre of April 1919, in which hundreds of Indians were killed after Dyer ordered troops to open fire on a large crowd in an enclosed area. In the years that followed, he became increasingly involved with the INC and national politics, and, in 1921, was imprisoned for the first time for his participation in the Non-cooperation Movement. (Nehru would be imprisoned eight mo