JAWAHARLAL NEHRU:

     

 

      Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889, in Allahabad, India. In 1919, he joined the Indian National Congress and joined Indian Nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi’s independence movement. In 1947, Pakistan was created as a new, independent country for Muslims. The British withdrew and Nehru became independent India’s first prime minister. He died on May 27, 1964, in New Delhi, India.

Pre- political life:

             Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad, India in 1889. His father was a renowned lawyer and one of Mahatma Gandhi’s notable lieutenants. A series of English governesses and tutors educated Nehru at home until he was 16. He Continued his education in England, first at the Harrow School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned an honours degree in natural science. He later studied law at the Inner Temple in London before returning home to India in 1917. Like her father, Indira would later serve as prime minister of India under her married name; Indira Gandhi a family of high achievers, one of Nehru’s sisters, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, later became the first woman president of the UN General Assembly.

World War II:

          At the outbreak of  World War II in September 1939, British Viceroy Lord Linlithgow committed India to the war effort without consulting the now-autonomous provincial ministries. In response, the Congress party withdrew its representatives from the provinces and Gandhi staged a limited civil disobedience movement in which he and Nehru were jailed yet again.

Nehru spent a little over a year in jail and was released with other Congress prisoners three days before Pearl Harbour was bombed by the Japanese. When Japanese troops soon moved near the borders of India in the spring of 1942, the British government decided to enlist India to combat this new threat, but Gandhi who still essentially had the reins of the movement, would accept nothing less than independence and called on the British to leave India. Nehru reluctantly joined for nearly three years.

Legacy:

                Nehru’s four pillars of domestic policies were democracy, Socialism, unity, and secularism, and he largely succeeded in maintaining a strong foundation of all four during his tenure as president. While admired internationally for his idealism and statesmanship. His birthday, November 14, is celebrated 14, is celebrated in India as Baal Divas (“Children’s Day”) in recognition of his lifelong passion and work on behalf of children and young people