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  Jawaharlal Nehru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889, to Swaroop Rani, the wife of Motilal Nehru, a wealthy Allahabad based barrister and political leader himself.
Nehru was arrested in 1930, and during the Salt Satyagraha of 1931 for a number of years.
Nehru was also one of the founding statesmen of the Non Aligned Movement, of Asian and African nations seeking to stay away from the pressures of the alliances created by the USA and USSR.
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 Nehru - MSN Encarta
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian nationalist leader and statesman who was the first prime minister of independent India (1947-1964) and a leader of the Nonaligned Movement during the Cold War.
As head of the interim government, Nehru participated in negotiations for a united and federated India that were held in 1946 between the British rulers, the Congress, and the Muslim League.
In January 1964 Nehru suffered a stroke; he died in May. Two years later, Nehru’s daughter, Indira Gandhi, became prime minister of India and held that position for a total of 15 years before she was assassinated by Sikh radicals in 1984.
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 Jawaharlal Nehru: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nehru was married to Kamala Kaul in 1916.
Nehru's major rival as Mahatma Gandhi's successor in Congress was Sardar Vallabhai Patel[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject].
Nehru's economics of state intervention and investment were conceived at a time when transfers of capital and technology important to India were not easily forthcoming from the developed world (which at the time also had plenty of state-sponsored capital controls.) Nehru is often criticised, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jawaharlal_nehru.htm   (3742 words)

  
 Jawaharlal Nehru hero file
Nehru argues that India's place is alongside the democracies but insists that India can only fight as a free country.
Nehru is not released from this, his ninth, last and longest period of detention, until 15 June 1945.
Nehru becomes the first prime minister of independent India and introduces a mix of socialist planning and free enterprise measures to repair and build the country's ravaged economy.
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 webindia123-Indian personalities-Politicians-Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru came to be respected as a world statesman for his policies of peace, secularism and non- interference in any country's internal affairs.
In 1929 Jawaharlal Nehru was elected President of the All India Congress Committee and was given the reception fit for a king at the Lahore session of 1929.
Jawaharlal remained at the forefront of the National movement and became the Chief Negotiator of the Congress for the Transfer of power.
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 AsiaSource: Asia Biography - a resource of the Asia Society
Nehru, Jawaharlal (1889-1964), nationalist leader and the first prime minister of India (1947-1964), was born at Allahabad on 14 November 1889.
Nehru was elected to the Congress presidency again in 1936, 1937, and 1946, and he came to occupy a position in the nationalist movement second only to that of Gandhi.
Nehru's position in the Congress Party and the government was unchallenged throughout his seventeen years of power, except perhaps during the first three years of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's term as the deputy prime minister.
www.asiasource.org /society/nehru.cfm   (1047 words)

  
 Jawaharlal Nehru University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jawaharlal Nehru University is located in New Delhi, the capital of India.
Named after Jawaharlal Nehru (the first Prime Minister of India), the university is among the premier universities in India in the field of Liberal arts,Languages, Political Science and Economics.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union has traditionally been the leading voice of the socialist students' movement in India.
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 Jawaharlal Nehru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jawaharlal Nehru (जवाहरलाल नेहरू, Javāharlāl Nehrū) (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964), also called Pandit ('Teacher') Nehru, was the leader of the socialist wing of the Indian National Congress during and after India's struggle for independence from the British Empire.
Nehru's major rival as Mahatma Gandhi's successor in Congress was Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
Not wishing to confront China, Nehru did not protest the Chinese conquest of Tibet, despite the fact that it meant the disappearance of a buffer state that had separated China and India, although the Dalai Lama was permitted to set up a government-in-exile at Dharamsala.
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 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jawaharlal Nehru remained the Prime Minister of India for 17 long years and can rightly be called the architect of modern India.
Nehru gave a clear direction to India’s role in the comity of nations with the policy of non alignment and the principle of Panchsheel, the five principles of peaceful coexistence at a time when the rivalries of cold-war were driving the humanity to its doom.
Jawaharlal was a prolific writer in English and wrote a number of books like ‘The Discovery of India’;, ‘Glimpses of World History’, his autobiography, ‘towards Freedom' (1936) ran nine editions in the first year alone.
rrtd.nic.in /jawaharlalnehru.htm   (357 words)

  
 Jawaharlal Nehru :: Indian Leader
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India and one of the strongest leaders of the independence movement.
Jawaharlal Nehru was born into a wealthy Kashmiri Brahmin family on the 14th of November, 1989 at Allahabad in North India.
Nehru was deeply moved to join politics when on 13th April, 1919, British troops fired at point-blank range into a crowd of 10,000 unarmed Indians who had gathered at Amritsar, Punjab, to celebrate a Hindu festival.
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 Jawaharlal Nehru
Post-electoral victory of the Congress, Nehru disagrees to a coalition with the Muslim League.
It would be pertinent to evaluate Nehru as a leader and a statesman because of the decisive and over-arching role that he played in Indian history in the 20th century.
Nehru can certainly be faulted for his idealism and belief in the sanctity of international law and agreements, in the light of his decision to go to the United Nations on the Kashmir issue and his faith in morality and goodwill as effective principles in inter-state relations.
www.india-today.com /itoday/millennium/100people/nehru.html   (1777 words)

  
 Nehru, Jawaharlal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Nehru, who had been influenced by a study of Marxism, opposed Gandhi’s ideal of an agrarian society and advanced a program calling for the industrialization and socialization of India.
Nehru became India’s prime minister and minister of foreign affairs and led the country through the difficult early years of independence.
Nehru wrote voluminously, especially while in prison; his notable works include Glimpses of World History (1936), comprising letters to his daughter (Indira Gandhi), and The Discovery of India (1946).
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 Online edition of Daily News - Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nehru was a sincere friend of Ceylon and had won the hearts of the people of my country on his visits here, by his charm, sincerity, simplicity, humanity and courage".
Nehru's official trips to Sri Lanka in 1957 and 1962 were significant as they were in connection with his participation at Anuradhapura, in the final observance of the 2,500th Anniversary of the Buddha's passing away and handing over to the Government of Sri Lanka the Ayurvedic Research Centre at Nawinna, respectively.
Nehru was one of the articulate India leaders to be involved in his country's freedom struggle.
www.dailynews.lk /2002/12/12/fea06.html   (2055 words)

  
 The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Remembering Jawaharlal
The first is the visceral hatred of Nehru on the part of those ideologically driven to dismantling his greatest achievement — the founding of a modern, democratic and secular Indian state committed to protecting and preserving the country's plurality and inclusiveness.
Nehru may have spoken Gandhi's language but he stuck to his resolve to industrialise the country and build a strong industrial, technical and scientific infrastructure.
To speak of Nehru's pre-eminence in the arena of foreign policy and as a major actor on the world stage would be to stress the obvious.
www.hindu.com /2004/05/27/stories/2004052702941000.htm   (1337 words)

  
 Tribuneindia... The fact File
Jawaharlal did not attend school like other children of his age — he was tutored at home by an English governess and, later, by English tutors.
Nehru’s desire to set his country free was strengthened and he set an aim for himself.
(Indira Priyadarshani was born to Kamla and Jawaharlal in 1917).
www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98nov14/saturday/fact.htm   (561 words)

  
 Nehru-Khan-Gandhi dynasty
Jawaharlal Nehru did not approve of the inter-caste marriage for political reasons (see http://www.asiasource.org/ society/indiragandhi.cfm).
If Indira Nehru were to marry a Muslim she would loose the possibility of becoming the heir to the future Nehru dynasty.
Indira Nehru married Feroze (Khan) Gandhi in 1942 and became Indira Gandhi, which helped her politically as daughter of Nehru (the first Prime Minister of the Indian Union) and daughter–in-law of Gandhi (the father of the nation) securing her place in the future Nehru-Gandhi dynasty (based on swordoftruth.com).
www.vepachedu.org /Nehrudynasty.html   (693 words)

  
 Jawaharlal Nehru
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India, was loved by the people both as a man and a leader.
Pandit Nehru led his peoples to freedom, democracy, unity, at the same time securing for the country a high place in the comity of nations.
Born on November 14, 1889, Nehru was educated at Harrow and Cambridge.
www.liveindia.com /freedomfighters/JawaharlalNehru.html   (416 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 27 | 1964: Light goes out in India as Nehru dies
Jawaharlal Nehru, founder of modern India and its current prime minister, has died suddenly at the age of 74.
Mr Nehru's body was moved from his first-floor bedroom down to a makeshift bier in front of the house.
Jawaharlal Nehru, the son of a lawyer, was a key figure in the struggle for independence from Britain.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/low/dates/stories/may/27/newsid_3690000/3690019.stm   (615 words)

  
 Nehru, Jawaharlal on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust achieves one million TEU mark.
Compromise and contradiction in Jawaharlal Nehru's multicultural nation-state: constructing national history in The Discovery of India.
Nehru's policy towards Kashmir: bringing politics back in again.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Nehru-J1a.asp   (611 words)

  
 Prime Minister's Office
Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allabahad on November 14, 1889.
Nehru became the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in September 1923.
Nehru was elected President of the Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress, where complete independence for the country was adopted as the goal.
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 Kids Freesouls - Literature - Jawaharlal Nehru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jawaharlal Nehru, fondly known as Chacha Nehru was born on November 14, 1889 at Allahabad, U.P. He was an Indian Nationalist Leader and Statesman who was the First Prime Minister of Independent India (1947-64)
The son of a wealthy Brahman lawyer from Kashmir, he went to England at the age of 16 and was educated at the Harrow School and the University of Cambridge.
Nehru remained a supporter of Gandhi until the latter's death in 1948.
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 NAM e-Secretariat Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964), was a leader of the (moderately) socialist wing of the Indian National Congress during and after India's struggle for independence from the British Empire.
As prime minister, Nehru pursued a foreign policy of non-alignment while pusuing India's claim to Kashmir in the face of Pakistani opposition, resulting in the First Kashmir War (1947-49).
Nehru's reported love affair with Edwina Mountbatten (wife of Lord Mountbatten, first Governor-General of independent India) is alleged by some to have placed him under undue political influence on the part of Lord Mountbatten in 1947-48.
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 Nehru Audio
awaharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889 in Allahabad, central India.
His father Motilal Nehru was a prominent advocate and early leader of the Indian independence movement.
The younger Nehru graduated from Cambridge University, and returned to India in 1912.
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 Nehru, Jawaharlal
Jawaharlal Nehru came into the world in Allahâbâd, India, in the year 1889, on November fourteenth.
For the majority of his education Nehru studied in Britain, and in 1905 he went to the Harrow School; later on he attended the Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.
Nehru worked hard to improve his country, and slowly but surely the agricultural production increased and the economy grew.
www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b3nehru.htm   (922 words)

  
 HumExclusive : Profiles : Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nehru acted as a spokesman for nonaligned nations in Asia and Africa.
Nehru served as general secretary of the All India Congress Committee in 1929.
Nehru was a master of English, and his writings are widely read.
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 Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian statesman Jawaharlal Nehru was educated in England and passed the English bar.
Nehru was jailed often by the British and served a total of 18 years in prison.
After India was granted independence, Nehru became the Prime Minister.
www.multied.com /bio/people/Nehru.html   (73 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Glimpses of World History : Centenary edition: Books: Jawaharlal Nehru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nehru himself calls the book as "Ramblings", given the background that book is a compilation of a whole bunch(196) of lengthy letters to his daughter, Indira Priyadarshini, during his stay in various goals across British Raj (which made him rely on memory than references).
Nehru's views on secularism and Palestine -so passionately expressed in the early thirties- give lie to the Hindutva propaganda that these are "pseudo" positions cunningly devised with Muslim "vote bank" in mind.
Nehru's love for socialism is projected in the first few pages when he talks about the origination of class with the invention of agriculture.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195623967?v=glance   (1687 words)

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