Jawaharlal Nehru ,also known as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,was one o the formost leaders of Indian freedom struggle . He was the favourite disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and later on went on to become the first Prime Minister of India . Jawahar Lal Nehru is widely regarded as the archited of moderm India .He was very fond of childern abd childern used to affectionately call him Chacha Nehru.
Jawahar Lal Nehru was born on November 14,1889. His father Motilal Nehru was a famous Allaahabad based barrister. Jawaharlal Nehru's mother's name was Swaroop Rani . Jawaharlal Nehru wasthe only son of Motilal Nehru . Motilal nEhru has three daughter apart from Jawaharlal Nehru . Nehru were Saraswat Brahmin of Kashmiri lineage.
Jawaharlal Neharu received education in some of the finest school and universities of the world. He did his schooling from Harrow and complete his Law degree from Trinity college . Cambridge . The seven years he spent in England widene his horizons and he acquired a rational and skeptical outlook and sampled Fabian socialism and Irish nationalism , which added to his own patriotic dedication.
Jawaharlal Nehru returned to India in 1912 and stsrted legal practice . He married Kamala Nehru in 1916. Jawahar Lal Neh ru joined Home Rule League in1917. His real initiation into politics came two years later when he came in contact with Mahatma in 1919. At that time Mahatma Gandhi had launched a capmpaign against Rowlat Act . Heharu was instantly attacted to Gandhi's commitment for active but peaceful . civil disobedience . Gandhi himself saw promise and India;s future in the young Jawaharlal Nehru.
In 1947,he became first Prime Mini ster of Independent India . He effectively coped with the formidable challenges of those times . the disorders and mass exodus of minorities across the new border with Pakistan , the integrationof 500- odd princely ststes into the Indian Union , the framing of a ne constitution , and the establishment of the political and administrative infrastructure for a parliamentary democracy .
Jawaharlal Nehru played a key role in building modern India . He set up a Planning Commission , encouraged development of science and technology , and launched three successive five -year plans . His policies led to a sizable growth in agricultural and industrial production . Nehru also played a major role in dweveloping independent India's foregin policy . He called for liquidation of colonialism in Asia and Africa and along with Tito and Nasser, was one of the chief architects of the nonaligned movement . He payed a constructive mediatory role in bringing the Korean War to an end and in resolving other international crises , such as those over the Suez Canal and the Congo , offering India ;s service for conciliations and international policing . He contributed behind the senese toward the solution of several other explosive issues , such as those of West Berlin , austria and Laos.
But Jawahar Lal Nehru couldn'timprove India 's relations with Pakistan and China . The Kashmir issue proced a stumbling block in reaching an accord with Pakistan , and the border disputer prevented a resolution with China .
The Chinese invasionin 1962, which Nehru failed to anticipate , came as a grat blow to him and probably hastened his death . Jawaharlal Nehru died of a heart attack on May 27, 1964.
