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2....Pt. Jawahar Lal Neharu

Personal details

Born- 14 November 1889

Allahabad, United Provinces, British Raj

Died- 27 May 1964 (aged 74)

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Cause of death- Heart attack

The son of Motilal Nehru, a prominent lawyer and nationalist statesman and Swaroop Rani, Nehru was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and the Inner Temple, where he trained to be a barrister. Upon his return to India, he enrolled at the Allahabad High Court, and took an interest in national politics, which eventually replaced his legal practice. A committed nationalist since his teenage years, he became a rising figure in Indian politics during the upheavals of the 1910s. He became the prominent leader of the left wing factions of the Indian National Congress. 

Nehru was elected by the Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister, although the question of leadership had been settled as far back as 1941, when Gandhi acknowledged Nehru as his political heir and successor. As Prime Minister, he set out to realise his vision of India. The Constitution of India was enacted in 1950, after which he embarked on an ambitious program of economic, social and political reforms. Chiefly, he oversaw India's transition from a colony to a republic, while nurturing a plural, multi-party system....... 

Neharu ji in khadi (member of SEVA DAL) 

Neharu ji at the ALLAHABAD COART

Britain . . . . . . . . . . . .  

Nehru had developed an interest in Indian politics during his time in Britain.[16] Within months of his return to India in 1912 he had attended an annual session of the Indian National Congress in Patna.[17] He was disconcerted with what he saw as a "very much an English-knowing upper class affair".[18] The Congress in 1912 had been the party of moderates and elites.[17] Nehru harboured doubts regarding the ineffectualness of the Congress but agreed to work for the party in support of the Indian civil rights movement in South Africa.[19] He collected funds for the civil rights campaigners led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1913.[17] Later, he campaigned against the indentured labour and other such discriminations faced by Indians in the British colonies..... 

World War I

When World War I broke out, sympathy in India was divided. Although educated Indians "by and large took a vicarious pleasure" in seeing the British rulers humbled, the ruling upper classes sided with the Allies. Nehru confessed that he viewed the war with mixed feelings. Frank Moraes wrote: "If [Nehru's] sympathy was with any country it was with France, whose culture he greatly admired."[21] During the war, Nehru volunteered for the St John Ambulance and worked as one of the provincial secretaries of the organisation in Allahabad.[17] He also spoke out against the censorship acts passed by the British government in India..