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Prime Minister Nehru with Lady Mountbatten in 1951 Edwina Mountbatten was the last vicereine of India , serving during the final months of the British Raj and the first months of the post-Partition period (February 1947 to June 1948) when Louis Mountbatten was the last viceroy of India and then, after the partition of India and Pakistan in June ...
Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Allahabad in British India to mother Swarup Rani née Thussu (1868–1938) and father Motilal Nehru (1861–1931). Both parents belonged to the community of Kashmiri Pandits , or brahmins originally from the Kashmir valley .
Mundapallil Oommen Mathai (1909 – 28 August 1981 [1]) was the Private Secretary to India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru before he was forced to quit in 1959 following the charges of corruption. [2]
Jawaharlal Nehru, as prime minister 1947-1964, usually with the assistance of Krishna Menon, shaped the new nation's foreign policy.Nehru served concurrently as Minister of External Affairs; he made all major foreign policy decisions himself after consulting with his advisers and then entrusted the conduct of international affairs to senior members of the Indian Foreign Service.
This collection of letters, Before Freedom: Nehru's letters to his sister 1909–1947, written by Jawaharlal Nehru between 1909 and 1947 to his sister, was edited and compiled by his niece, Nayantara Sahgal, and was first published in 2000 by HarperCollins. [10] A later edition was published by Roli Books in 2004. [4]
Gangadhar Nehru (1827–1861), a direct descendant of Raj Kaul. He was the last Kotwal of Delhi (equivalent to Chief of Police), prior to the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was the father of freedom fighter Motilal Nehru and grandfather of Jawaharlal Nehru who was the first prime minister of India, thus part of the Nehru family.
Nehru, as the leader of the ruling Congress party, wished to have the LIC matter handled quietly since it might show the government in a poor light. [ 6 ] However, Feroze Gandhi was the primary force behind an anti-corruption movement that in 1956 resulted in imprisonment of one of India's wealthiest men, Ram Kishan Dalmia, for defrauding his ...
Nanavati was finally pardoned by Vijayalakshmi Pandit, newly appointed Governor of Maharashtra and sister of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. [ 2 ] The incident received unprecedented media coverage and inspired several books and films such as the 1963 movie Yeh Rastey Hain Pyar Ke, the 1973 film Achanak , the 1983 film Asthram , the 2016 film ...