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Motilal Nehru
Indian lawyer and politician (1861–1931)
Motilal Nehru (6 May 1861 – 6 February 1931) was an Indian lawyer, activist, and politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress. He served as the Congress President twice, from 1919 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1929. He was a patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family and the father of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Motilal Nehru was born on 6 May 1861, the posthumous son of Gangadhar Nehru and his wife Indrani. During the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, Gangadhar Nehru was the kotwal or police officer of Delhi.[3][4]
Thus, Motilal came to spend his childhood in Khetri, second largest thikana (feudal estate) within the princely state of Jaipur, now in Rajasthan. His elder brother, Nandlal Nehru gained the favour of Raja Fateh Singh of Khetri, who was the same age as him, and rose to the position of Diwan (Chief Minister; effectively the manager) of
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
"Nehru" redirects here. For other uses, see Nehru (disambiguation).
Jawaharlal Nehru | |
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Official portrait, 1948 | |
| In office 15 August 1947 – 27 May 1964 | |
| Monarch | George VI(until 1950) |
| President | |
| Governors General | |
| Vice President | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Zakir Husain |
| Deputy | Vallabhbhai Patel(until 1950) |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Lal Bahadur Shastri[a] |
| In office 2 September 1946 – 27 May 1964 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Gulzarilal Nanda |
| In office 2 September 1946 – 15 August 1947 | |
| Governors General | |
| In office 17 April 1952 – 27 May 1964 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
| Constituency | Phulpur, Uttar Pradesh |
| Born | (1889-11-14)14 November 1889 Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, British India (present • The Nehru you don’t knowFile photographs of Jawaharlal Nehru. * Jawahar, the Arabic word for pearl, could not have been chosen by any Kashmiri Brahmin as a name for his child. * Jawaharlal Nehru’s grandfather was Ghiasuddin Ghazi, a kotwal of the Mughals, who changed his name to Gangadhar Nehru. * Nehru was born in a brothel in Allahabad. * Nehru got a Catholic nun pregnant, and was indebted to the church for spiriting her away from India. He died of syphilis. * Amitabh Bachchan is his son. Welcome to the virtual world of Nehru vilification. Entirely obalanserad from reality, these wild stories about India’s first prime minister, who laid the foundations of its democracy, are nonetheless the default on the internet. Unlike the academic utmaning of changing details in textbooks, the Web fryst vatten a terräng for the taking. "Anything that questions dominant historical views fryst vatten |