Jawaharlal Nehru Hindi: जवा�हरला�ला ने�हरू, Urdu: نهرو لال ;جواهر 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964[4]), often referred to with the epithet of Pandit ji , was an Indian politician who became the first Prime Minister of independent India (1947–64) and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the 1930s and ’40s. Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister, and re-elected when the Congress Party won India's first general election in 1951 and 1952. Nehru contributed to the establishment of a secular Parliamentary democracy in India and was one of the founders of the international Non-Aligned Movement.

The son of moderate nationalist leader and Congressman Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru became a leader of the left wing of the Congress when fairly young. Rising to become Congress President under the mentorship of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Nehru was a charismatic and radical leader, advocating complete independence for India from the British Empire. In the long struggle for Indian independence, Nehru was eventually recognized as Gandhi's political heir. Throughout his life, Nehru advocated Democratic socialism/Fabian Socialism and a strong Public sector as the means by which economic development could be pursued by poorer nations. He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi, who would later serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India.

Jawaharlal Nehru

1st Prime Minister of IndiaIn office 15 August 1947 – 27 May 1964Monarch George VI (1947-1950)President Rajendra Prasad Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Governor General The Earl Mountbatten of BurmaChakravarti Rajagopalachari

Deputy Vallabhbhai PatelPreceded by Position establishedSucceeded by Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting)Minister of DefenceIn office 31 October 1962 – 14 November 1962Preceded by V. K. Krishna MenonSucceeded by Yashwantrao ChavanIn office 30 January 1957 – 17 April 1957Preceded by Kailash Nath KatjuSucceeded by V. K. Krishna MenonIn office 10 February 1953 – 10 January 1955Preceded by N. Gopalaswami AyyangarSucceeded by Kailash Nath KatjuMinister of FinanceIn office 13 February 1958 – 13 March 1958Preceded by Tiruvellore Thattai KrishnamachariarSucceeded by Morarji DesaiIn office 24 July 1956 – 30 August 1956Preceded by Chintaman Dwarakanath DeshmukhSucceeded by Tiruvellore Thattai KrishnamachariarMinister of External AffairsIn office 15 August 1947 – 27 May 1964Preceded by Position establishedSucceeded by Gulzarilal NandaPersonal detailsBorn 14 November 1889 Allahabad, North-

Western Provinces, British IndiaDied 27 May 1964 (aged 74) New Delhi,

IndiaPolitical party Indian National CongressSpouse(s) Kamala KaulChildren Indira GandhiAlma mater Trinity College, Cambridge Inns of

CourtProfession BarristerReligion Agnostic atheism [1] [2] [3]

Early life and career

The Nehru family. Standing (L to R) are Jawaharlal Nehru, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Krishna Hutheesing, Indira Gandhi, and Ranjit Pandit. Seated: Swaroop Rani, Motilal Nehru and Kamala Nehru (c. 1927).

Jawaharlal Nehru at Harrow, where he was also known as Joe Nehru.

Jawaharlal Nehru was born to Motilal Nehru (1861–1931) and Swaroop Rani (1863–1954) in a Kashmiri Pandit family in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), British India. He was educated in India and Britain. In England, he attended the independent boy's school, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. During his time in Britain, Nehru was also known as Joe Nehru.[5][6][7][8][9][10]

On 7 February 1916, Nehru married sixteen year old Kamala Kaul. In the first year of the marriage, Kamala gave birth to their only child, Indira Priyadarshini. Much modern speculation has revolved around whether, during the final days of the British in India, Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten, the wife of Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, were romantically involved.[11]

Life and career

Nehru raised the flag of independent India in New Delhi on 15 August 1947, the day India gained Independence. Nehru's appreciation of the virtues of parliamentary democracy, secularism and liberalism, coupled with his concerns for the poor and underprivileged, are recognised to have guided him in formulating socialist policies that influence India to this day. They also reflect the socialist origins of his worldview. His daughter, Indira Gandhi, and grandson, Rajiv Gandhi, also served as Prime Ministers of India.

Successor to Gandhi

On 15 January 1941 Gandhi said, "Some say Pandit Nehru and I were estranged. It will require much more than difference of opinion to estrange us. We had differences from the time we became co-workers and yet I have said for some years and say so now that not Rajaji but Jawaharlal will be my successor."[12]

Political apprenticeship

Teen Murti Bhavan, Nehru's residence as Prime Minister, now a museum in his memory.

Nehru and his colleagues had been released as the British Cabinet Mission arrived to propose plans for transfer of power.

Once elected, Nehru headed an interim government, which was impaired by outbreaks of communal violence and political disorder, and the opposition of the Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who were demanding a separate Muslim state of Pakistan. After failed

bids to form coalitions, Nehru reluctantly supported the partition of India, according to a plan released by the British on 3 June 1947. He took office as the Prime Minister of India on 15 August, and delivered his inaugural address titled "A Tryst With Destiny"

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity."[13]

However, this period was marked with intense communal violence. This violence swept across the Punjab region, Delhi, Bengal and other parts of India. Nehru conducted joint tours[citation needed]

with Pakistani leaders to encourage peace and calm angry and disillusioned refugees. Nehru would work with Maulana Azad and other Muslim leaders to safeguard and encourage Muslims to remain in India. The violence of the time deeply affected Nehru, who called for a ceasefire[citation needed] and UN intervention to stop the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Fearing communal reprisals, Nehru also hesitated in supporting the annexation of Hyderabad State. Jaswant Singh, a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), viewed Nehru, not Mohammad Ali Jinnah, as causing the partition of India, mostly referring to his highly centralised policies for an independent India in 1947, which Jinnah opposed in favour of a more decentralised India. The split between the two was among the causes of partition. It is believed that personal animosity between the two leaders led to the partition of India.[14][15]

In the years following independence, Nehru frequently turned to his daughter Indira to look after him and manage his personal affairs. Under his leadership, the Congress won an overwhelming majority in the elections of 1952. Indira moved into Nehru's official residence to attend to him and became his constant companion in his travels across India and the world. Indira would virtually become Nehru's chief of staff.

Nehru's study in Teen Murti Bhavan.

Economic policies

Nehru presided over the introduction of a modified, Indian version of state planning and control over the economy. Creating the Planning commission of India, Nehru drew up the first Five-Year Plan in 1951, which charted the government's investments in industries and agriculture. Increasing business and income taxes, Nehru envisaged a mixed economy in which the government would manage strategic industries such as mining, electricity and heavy industries, serving public interest and a check to private enterprise. Nehru pursued land redistribution and launched programmes to build irrigation canals, dams and spread the use of fertilizers to increase agricultural production. He also pioneered a series of community development programs aimed at spreading diverse cottage industries and increasing efficiency into rural India. While encouraging the construction of large dams (which Nehru called the "new temples of India"), irrigation works and the generation of hydroelectricity, Nehru also launched India's programme to harness nuclear energy.

For most of Nehru's term as prime minister, India would continue to face serious food shortages despite progress and increases in agricultural production. Nehru's industrial policies, summarised in the Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956, encouraged the growth of diverse manufacturing and heavy industries,[16] yet state planning, controls and regulations began to impair productivity, quality and profitability. Although the Indian economy enjoyed a steady rate of growth at 2.5% per annum (mocked by leftist economist Raj Krishna as a "Hindu rate of growth"), chronic unemployment amidst widespread poverty continued to plague the population.

Education and social reform

Jawaharlal Nehru with the boys of the Doon School

Jawaharlal Nehru was a passionate advocate of education for India's children and youth, believing it essential for India's future progress. His government oversaw the establishment of many institutions of higher learning, including the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, the Indian Institutes of Technology, the Indian Institutes of Management and the National Institutes of Technology. Nehru also outlined a commitment in his five-year plans to guarantee free and compulsory primary education to all of India's children. For this purpose, Nehru oversaw the creation of mass village enrollment programmes and the construction of thousands of schools. Nehru also launched initiatives such as the provision of free milk and meals to children in order to fight malnutrition. Adult education centres, vocational and technical schools were also organised for adults, especially in the rural areas.

Under Nehru, the Indian Parliament enacted many changes to Hindu law to criminalize caste discrimination and increase the legal rights and social freedoms of women[17][18][19][20]

A system of reservations in government services and educational institutions was created to eradicate the social inequalities and disadvantages faced by peoples of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. Nehru also championed secularism and religious harmony, increasing the representation of minorities in government. D. D. Kosambi, a well-known Marxist historian, criticized Nehru in his article for the bourgeoisie class exploitation of Nehru's socialist ideology.[21]

National security and foreign policy

See also: Role of India in Non-Aligned Movement

Nehru led newly independent India from 1947 to 1964, during its first years of freedom from British rule. Both the United States and the Soviet Union competed to make India an ally throughout the Cold War.

On the international scene, Nehru was a champion of pacifism and a strong supporter of the United Nations. He pioneered the policy of non-alignment and co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement of nations professing neutrality between the rival blocs of nations led by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Recognising the People's Republic of China soon after its founding (while most of the Western bloc continued relations with the Republic of China), Nehru argued for its inclusion in the United Nations and refused to brand the Chinese as the aggressors in their conflict with Korea.[22] He sought to establish warm and friendly relations with China in 1950, and hoped to act as an intermediary to bridge the gulf and tensions between the communist states and the Western bloc.

Meanwhile, Nehru had promised in 1948 to hold a plebiscite in Kashmir under the auspices of the UN but, as Pakistan failed to pull back troops in accordance with the UN resolution and as Nehru grew increasingly wary of the UN, he declined to hold a plebiscite in 1953. He ordered the arrest of the Kashmiri politician Sheikh Abdullah, whom he had previously supported but now suspected of harbouring separatist ambitions; Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad replaced him.

His policy of pacifism and appeasement with respect to China also came unraveled when border disputes led to the Sino-Indian war in 1962.

Jawaharlal Nehru (right) with Muhammad Ali Bogra, Prime Minister of Pakistan (left), during his 1953 visit to Karachi

Nehru was hailed by many for working to defuse global tensions and the threat of nuclear weapons.[23] He commissioned the first study of the human effects of nuclear explosions, and campaigned ceaselessly for the abolition of what he called "these frightful engines of destruction." He also had pragmatic reasons for promoting de-nuclearisation, fearing that a nuclear arms race would lead to over-militarisation that would be unaffordable for developing countries such as his own.[24]

In 1956 he had criticised the joint invasion of the Suez Canal by the British, French and Israelis. Suspicion and distrust cooled relations between India and the U.S., which suspected Nehru of tacitly supporting the Soviet Union. Accepting the arbitration of the UK and World Bank, Nehru signed the Indus Water Treaty in 1960 with Pakistani ruler Ayub Khan to resolve long-standing disputes about sharing the resources of the major rivers of the Punjab region.

"We, who for generations had talked about and attempted in everything a peaceful way and practiced non-violence, should now be, in a sense, glorifying our army, navy and air force. It means a lot. Though it is odd, yet it simply reflects the oddness of life. Though life is logical, we have to face all contingencies, and unless we are prepared to face them, we will go under. There was no greater prince of peace and apostle of non-violence than Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, whom we have lost, but yet, he said it was better to take the sword than to surrender, fail or run away. We cannot live carefree assuming that we are safe. Human nature is such. We cannot take the risks and risk our hard-won freedom. We have to be prepared with all modern defense methods and a well-equipped army, navy and air force."[25][26]

Nuclear weapons program

Nehru envisioned the developing of nuclear weapons and established the Atomic Energy Commission of India (AEC) in 1948.[27] Nehru also called Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, a nuclear

physicist, who was entrusted with complete authority over all nuclear related affairs and programs and answered only to Nehru himself.[27] Indian nuclear policy was set by unwritten personal understanding between Nehru and Bhabha.[27] Nehru famously said to Bhabha, "Professor Bhabha take care of Physics, leave international relation to me".[27] From the outset in 1948, Nehru had high ambition to developed this program to stand against the industrialized states and the basis of this program was to establish an Indian nuclear weapons capability as part of India's regional superiority to other South-Asian states, most particularly Pakistan.[27]

Nehru also told Bhabha, later it was told by Bhabha to Raja Rammanna that,

"We must have the capability. We should first prove ourselves and then talk of Gandhi, non-violence and a world without nuclear weapons.[27] "

Final years

Nehru with Ashoke Kumar Sen, S. Radhakrishnan and Bidhan Chandra Roy

Nehru had led the Congress to a major victory in the 1957 elections, but his government was facing rising problems and criticism. Disillusioned by intra-party corruption and bickering, Nehru contemplated resigning but continued to serve. The election of his daughter Indira as Congress President in 1959 aroused criticism for alleged nepotism[citation needed], although actually Nehru had disapproved of her election, partly because he considered it smacked of "dynastism"; he said, indeed it was "wholly undemocratic and an undesirable thing", and refused her a position in his cabinet.[28] Indira herself was at loggerheads with her father over policy; most notably, she used his oft-stated personal deference to the Congress Working Committee to push through the

dismissal of the Communist Party of India government in the state of Kerala, over his own objections.[28] Nehru began to be frequently embarrassed by her ruthlessness and disregard for parliamentary tradition, and was "hurt" by what he saw as an assertiveness with no purpose other than to stake out an identity independent of her father.[4]

Although the Pancha Sila (Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence) was the basis of the 1954 Sino-Indian border treaty, in later years, Nehru's foreign policy suffered through increasing Chinese assertiveness over border disputes and Nehru's decision to grant political asylum to the 14th Dalai Lama. After years of failed negotiations, Nehru authorized the Indian Army to liberate Goa in 1961 from Portuguese occupation, and then he formally annexed it to India. It increased his popularity, but he was criticized for the use of military force.

In the 1962 elections, Nehru led the Congress to victory yet with a diminished majority. Opposition parties ranging from the right-wing Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Swatantra Party, socialists and the Communist Party of India performed well.

Prime Minister Nehru talks with United Nations General Assembly President Romulo (October 1949).

Nehru lying in state, 1964.

From 1959, in a process that accelerated in 1961, Nehru adopted the "Forward Policy" of setting up military outposts in disputed areas of the Sino-Indian border, including in 43 outposts in territory not previously controlled by India.[29] China attacked some of these outposts, and thus the Sino-Indian War began, which India technically lost, but China gained no territory as it withdrew to pre-war lines. The war exposed the weaknesses of India's military, and Nehru was widely criticised for his government's insufficient attention to defence. In response, Nehru sacked the defence minister Krishna Menon and sought U.S. military aid, but Nehru's health

began declining steadily, and he spent months recuperating in Kashmir through 1963. Some historians attribute this dramatic decline to his surprise and chagrin over the Sino-Indian War, which he perceived as a betrayal of trust.[30] Upon his return from Kashmir in May 1964, Nehru suffered a stroke and later a heart attack. He was "taken ill in early hours" of 27 May 1964 and died in "early afternoon" on same day, and his death was announced to Lok Sabha at 1400 local time; cause of death is believed to be heart attack.[31] Nehru was cremated in accordance with Hindu rites at the Shantivana on the banks of the Yamuna River, witnessed by hundreds of thousands of mourners who had flocked into the streets of Delhi and the cremation grounds.

Legacy

Bust of Nehru at Aldwych, London

As India's first Prime minister and external affairs minister, Jawaharlal Nehru played a major role in shaping modern India's government and political culture along with sound foreign policy. He is praised for creating a system providing universal primary education[citation needed], reaching children in the farthest corners of rural India. Nehru's education policy is also credited for the development of world-class educational institutions such as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences,[32] Indian Institutes of Technology,[33] and the Indian Institutes of Management.

"Nehru was a great man... Nehru gave to Indians an image of themselves that I don't think others might have succeeded in doing." – Sir Isaiah Berlin [34]

In addition, Nehru's stance as an unfailing nationalist led him to also implement policies which stressed commonality among Indians while still appreciating regional diversities. This proved particularly important as post-Independence differences surfaced since British withdrawal from the subcontinent prompted regional leaders to no longer relate to one another as allies against a common adversary. While differences of culture and, especially, language threatened the unity of the new nation, Nehru established programs such as the National Book Trust and the National Literary Academy which promoted the translation of regional literatures between languages and also organized the transfer of materials between regions. In pursuit of a single, unified India, Nehru warned, "Integrate or perish."[35]

Commemoration

Nehru distributes sweets among children at Nongpoh, Meghalaya

Jawaharlal Nehru on a 1989 USSR commemorative stamp.

In his lifetime, Jawaharlal Nehru enjoyed an iconic status in India and was widely admired across the world for his idealism and statesmanship. His birthday, 14 November, is celebrated in India as Baal Divas ("Children's Day") in recognition of his lifelong passion and work for the welfare, education and development of children and young people. Children across India remember him as Chacha Nehru (Uncle Nehru). Nehru remains a popular symbol of the Congress Party which frequently celebrates his memory. Congress leaders and activists often emulate his style of clothing, especially the Gandhi cap, and his mannerisms. Nehru's ideals and policies continue to shape the Congress Party's manifesto and core political philosophy. An emotional attachment to his legacy was instrumental in the rise of his daughter Indira to leadership of the Congress Party and the national government.

Nehru's personal preference for the sherwani ensured that it continues to be considered formal wear in North India today; aside from lending his name to a kind of cap, the Nehru jacket is named in his honour due to his preference for that style.

Numerous public institutions and memorials across India are dedicated to Nehru's memory. The Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi is among the most prestigious universities in India. The Jawaharlal Nehru Port near the city of Mumbai is a modern port and dock designed to handle a huge cargo and traffic load. Nehru's residence in Delhi is preserved as the Teen Murti House now has Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and one of five Nehru Planetariums that were set in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Allahabad and Pune. The complex also houses the offices of the 'Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund', established in 1964 under the Chairmanship of Dr S. Radhakrishnan, then President of India. The foundation also gives away the prestigious 'Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fellowship', established in 1968.[36] The Nehru family homes at Anand Bhavan and Swaraj Bhavan are also preserved to commemorate Nehru and his family's legacy.

In popular culture

Many documentaries about Nehru's life have been produced. He has also been portrayed in fictionalised films. The canonical performance is probably that of Roshan Seth, who played him three times: in Richard Attenborough's 1982 film Gandhi, Shyam Benegal's 1988 television series Bharat Ek Khoj, based on Nehru's The Discovery of India, and in a 2007 TV film entitled The Last Days of the Raj.[37] In Ketan Mehta's film Sardar, Nehru was portrayed by Benjamin Gilani. Girish Karnad's historical play, Tughlaq (1962) is an allegory about the Nehruvian era. It was staged by Ebrahim Alkazi with National School of Drama Repertory at Purana Qila, Delhi in 1970s and later at the Festival of India, London in 1982.[38][39]

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जवा�हरला�ला ने�हरू 1924 म� इला�ह�ब�दे नेगर त्रिनेगम का� अध्यांक्षा चु1ने� गए और उन्ह>ने� शहर का� म1ख्यां का�यांVका�र( अष्टिधाका�र( का� रूप म� दे, वाbV तंका सा�वा� का+। यांह उनेका� शिलाए एका म=ल्यांवा�ने प्रश�सात्रिनेका अने1भावा था� ज, उन्ह� तंब का�म आयां� जब वाह दे�श का� प्रधा�नेमत्र( बने�। उन्ह>ने� अपने� का�यांVका�ला का� इस्तं�म�ला सा�वाVजत्रिनेका शिशक्षा� का� त्रिवास्तं�र, स्वा�स्थ्यां का+ दे�]भा�ला और स्वाच्छतं� का� शिलाए त्रिकायां�। 1926 म� उन्ह>ने� त्रिब्राट्रिटीश अष्टिधाका�रिरयां> सा� साहयां,ग का+ काम( का� हवा�ला� दे�कार इस्तं(फै� दे� ट्रिदेयां�.

1926 सा� 1928 तंका, जवा�हर ला�ला ने� अखि]ला भा�रतं(यां का�ग्री�सा साष्टिमत्रितं का� मह�साशिचुवा का� रूप म� सा�वा� का+। 1928-29 म�, का�ग्री�सा का� वा�र्षिbcका सात्र का� आयां,जने म,तं(ला�ला ने�हरू का+ अध्यांक्षातं� म� त्रिकायां� गयां�। उसा सात्र म� जवा�हरला�ला ने�हरू और सा1भा�b चुन्द्र ब,सा ने� प=र( र�जने(त्रितंका स्वातंत्रतं� का+ म�ग का� सामथाVने त्रिकायां�, जबत्रिका म,तं(ला�ला ने�हरू और अन्यां ने�तं�ओं ने� त्रिब्राट्रिटीश सा�म्रा�ज्यां का� भा(तंर ह( प्रभा1त्वा साम्पन्न र�ज्यां का� देज�V प�ने� का+ म�ग का� सामथाVने त्रिकायां�। म1द्दे� का, हला कारने� का� शिलाए, ग�धा( ने� ब(चु का� र�स्तं� त्रिनेका�ला� और काह� त्रिका त्रिब्राटी�ने का, भा�रतं का� र�ज्यां का� देज�V दे�ने� का� शिलाए दे, सा�ला का� सामयां ट्रिदेयां� ज�एग� और यांट्रिदे ऐसा� नेह5 हुआ तं, का�ग्री�सा प=णV र�जने(त्रितंका स्वातंत्रतं� का� शिलाए एका र�ष्ट्र(यां साघbV श1रू कार�ग(। ने�हरू और ब,सा ने� म�ग का+ त्रिका इसा सामयां का, काम कार का� एका सा�ला कार ट्रिदेयां� ज�ए। त्रिब्राट्रिटीश सारका�र ने� इसाका� का,ई जवा�ब नेह5 ट्रिदेयां�।

ट्रिदेसाNबर 1929 म�, का�ग्री�सा का� वा�र्षिbcका अष्टिधावा�शने ला�ह0र म� आयां,जिजतं त्रिकायां� गयां� जिजसाम� जवा�हरला�ला ने�हरू का�ग्री�सा प�टीx का� अध्यांक्षा चु1ने� गए। इसा( सात्र का� दे0र�ने एका प्रस्तं�वा भा( प�रिरतं त्रिकायां� गयां� जिजसाम� भा�रतं का+ स्वातंत्रतं� का+ म�ग का+ गई। 26 जनेवार(, 1930 का, ला�ह0र म� जवा�हरला�ला ने�हरू ने� स्वातंत्र भा�रतं का� झंK� फैहर�यां�। ग�धा( ज( ने� भा( 1930 म� सात्रिवानेयां अवाज्ञा� आदे,लाने का� आह्वा�ने त्रिकायां�। आदे,लाने ]�सा� साफैला रह� और इसाने� त्रिब्राट्रिटीश सारका�र का, प्रम1] र�जने(त्रितंका सा1धा�र> का+ आवाश्यांकातं� का, स्वा(का�र कारने� का� शिलाए मजब=र कार ट्रिदेयां�.

जब त्रिब्राट्रिटीश सारका�र ने� भा�रतं अष्टिधात्रिनेयांम 1935 प्रख्यां�त्रिपतं त्रिकायां� तंब का�ग्री�सा प�टीx ने� चु1ने�वा लाड़ने� का� फैE साला� त्रिकायां�। ने�हरू चु1ने�वा का� ब�हर रह� ला�त्रिकाने ज़ा,र> का� सा�था प�टीx का� शिलाए र�ष्ट्रव्य�प( अभिभायां�ने चुला�यां�। का�ग्री�सा ने� लागभाग हर प्र�तं म� सारका�र> का� गठने त्रिकायां� और का� न्द्रJयां असा�बला( म� साबसा� ज्यां�दे� सा(टी> पर ज(तं ह�शिसाला का+।

ने�हरू का�ग्री�सा का� अध्यांक्षा पदे का� शिलाए 1936, 1937 और 1946 म� चु1ने� गए था�, और र�ष्ट्रवा�देJ आदे,लाने म� ग�धा( का� ब�दे त्रि}तं(यां स्था�ने ह�शिसाला त्रिकायां�। उन्ह� 1942 म� भा�रतं छ,ड़, आदे,लाने का� दे0र�ने त्रिगरफ्तं�र भा( त्रिकायां� गयां� और 1945 म� छ,K ट्रिदेयां� गयां�। 1947 म� भा�रतं और प�त्रिकास्तं�ने का+ आज�देJ का� सामयां उन्ह>ने� अग्री�ज( सारका�र का� सा�था हुई वा�तं�Vओं म� महत्वाप=णV भा�ग(दे�र( का+।

1947 म� वा� स्वातंत्र भा�रतं का� पहला� प्रधा�नेमत्र( बने�। अग्री�ज> ने� कार(ब 500 दे�श( रिरयां�सातं> का, एका सा�था स्वातंत्र त्रिकायां� था� और उसा वाक्त साबसा� बK( चु1ने0तं( था( उन्ह� एका झंK� का� ने(चु� ला�ने�। उन्ह>ने� भा�रतं का� प1नेगVठने का� र�स्तं� म� उभार( हर चु1ने0तं( का� सामझंदे�र( प=वाVका सा�मने� त्रिकायां�। जवा�हरला�ला ने�हरू ने� आधा1त्रिनेका भा�रतं का� त्रिनेम�Vण म� महत्वाप=णV भा=ष्टिमका� अदे� का+. उन्ह>ने� यां,जने� आयां,ग का� गठने त्रिकायां�, त्रिवाज्ञा�ने और प्र0द्या,त्रिगका+ का� त्रिवाका�सा का, प्र,त्सा�त्रिहतं त्रिकायां� और तं(ने लाग�तं�र पचुवाb�यां यां,जने�ओं का� श1भा�रभा त्रिकायां�। उनेका+ ने(त्रितंयां> का� का�रण दे�श म� का� त्रिb और उद्या,ग का� एका नेयां� यां1ग श1रु हुआ। ने�हरू ने� भा�रतं का+ त्रिवादे�श ने(त्रितं का� त्रिवाका�सा म� एका प्रम1] भा=ष्टिमका� त्रिनेभा�ई।.

जवा�हर ला�ला ने�हरू ने� ज,सा�फै ब्राFज टीJटी, और अब्दुला गम�ला ने�शिसार का� सा�था ष्टिमलाकार एशिशयां� और अफ्री+का� म� उपत्रिनेवा�शवा�दे का� ]�त्म� का� शिलाए एका त्रिनेग1Vटी आदे,लाने का+ रचुने� का+। वाह का,रिरयां�ई यां1द्ध का� अतं कारने�, स्वा�ज नेहर त्रिवावा�दे सा1लाझं�ने�, और का�ग, सामझं0तं� का, म=तंVरूप दे�ने� जEसा� अन्यां अतंरर�ष्ट्र(यां सामस्यां�ओं का� साम�धा�ने म� मध्यांस्था का+ भा=ष्टिमका� म� रह�। पभिfम बर्लिलाcने, ऑस्ट्रिस्Hयां�, और ला�ओसा का� जEसा� काई अन्यां त्रिवास्फो,टीका म1द्दे> का� साम�धा�ने म� पदे� का� प(छ� रह कार भा( उनेका� महत्वाप=णV यां,गदे�ने रह�। उन्ह� वाbV 1955 म� भा�रतं रत्ने सा� साNमत्रिनेतं त्रिकायां� गयां�।

ला�त्रिकाने ने�हरू प�त्रिकास्तं�ने और चु(ने का� सा�था भा�रतं का� साबधा> म� सा1धा�र नेह5 कार प�ए। प�त्रिकास्तं�ने का� सा�था एका सामझं0तं� तंका पहु.चुने� म� काश्म(र म1द्दे� और चु(ने का� सा�था ष्टिमत्रतं� म� सा(म� त्रिवावा�दे र�स्तं� का� पत्थर सा�त्रिबतं हुए। ने�हरू ने� चु(ने का+ तंरफै ष्टिमत्रतं� का� ह�था भा( बढ�यां�, ला�त्रिकाने 1962 म� चु(ने ने� धा,]� सा� आ_मण कार ट्रिदेयां�। ने�हरू का� शिलाए यांह एका बड़� झंटीका� था� और श�यांदे उनेका+ म0तं भा( इसा( का�रण हुई। 27 मई, 1964 का, जवा�हरला�ला ने�हरू का, ट्रिदेला का� दे0र� पK� जिजसाम� उनेका+ म�त्यां1 ह, गई.

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