Jawaharlal Nehru

Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964

  • Fame85.2
  • Momentum4.1
  • Global rank#233
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  • Fame85.2
  • Momentum4.1
  • Global rank#233
  • India rank#4
  • Politicians rank#52
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Lived 1889–1964, aged 75India
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  • Era
    1889–1964
    Aged 75
  • Known for
    Viceroy's House
    2017
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Updated 2026-09-06

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.

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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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Jawaharlal Nehru
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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.
quoted in Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: 15 August 1947 to 31 ... Jawaharlal Nehru, ‎Madhavan K. Palat · 1986 · ‎, quoted in The Great
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Every war waged by imperialist powers will be an imperialist war whatever the excuses put forward; therefore we must keep out of it.
At the Lucknow session of the Congress in April 1936, in his presidential address. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2018). Why I killed the
Jawaharlal Nehru
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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 ...
Article in Modern Review (1936) by a pseudonymous author signing himself "Chanakya", later revealed to have been Nehru himself; as quoted
Jawaharlal Nehru
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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.
On the defeat of the forces of Darius the Great of Persia at the Battle of Marathon, in Glimpses of World History; Being Further Letters to
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Japan had come to terms with Russia because of her difficulties, but this did not mean approval of communism.
Glimpses of World History (1934-1949)
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