Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
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India's first prime minister shaped the world's largest democracy for sixteen years after independence, steering a newly freed nation toward secularism, science, and a third path between Cold War superpowers while writing books that carried his vision of modern India to readers everywhere.
The son of a prominent nationalist lawyer, Nehru was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, trained as a barrister, then returned to India where national politics consumed him. He rose through the Indian National Congress in the 1920s with Gandhi's backing, called for complete independence as Congress president in 1929, and led the party to sweep the 1937 provincial elections. After years in British prisons—including a stretch following the 1942 Quit India movement—he emerged to find Muslim League power ascendant under Jinnah and partition looming. Sworn in as prime minister on 15 August 1947 after…
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The present objective is Kashmir . The next declared objective is Patiala , East Punjab and Delhi . “ On to Delhi " is the cry all over West Punjab.
Every war waged by imperialist powers will be an imperialist war whatever the excuses put forward; therefore we must keep out of it.
The most effective pose is one in which there seems to be the least of posing, and Jawahar had learned well to act without the paint and powder of an actor ...
They fought because they were paid for it; they were not interested very much in the conquest of Greece. The Athenians on the other hand, fought for their freedom.
Japan had come to terms with Russia because of her difficulties, but this did not mean approval of communism.
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