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Kamala Nehru (née Kaul; pronunciation ⓘ; 1 August 1899 – 28 February 1936) was an Indian independence activist and the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. Their daughter Indira Gandhi would go on to become the first and to date, the only female Prime Minister of India.
Krishna Nehru Hutheesing (1907–1967) was an Indian writer, the youngest sister of Jawaharlal Nehru and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and part of the Nehru–Gandhi family. Kamala Nehru (1899–1936), wife of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Motilal Nehru died in 1931 and Kamala in 1936. With the added departure of Indira leaving Allahabad to attend school abroad, Nehru felt that his home Anand Bhawan had become "desolate". [ 17 ] He had already tried to persuade Pandit in a letter dated 15 March 1935 that "it would be a good thing if sometime in the future you and Ranjit and the ...
Nehru and Kamala Kaul at their wedding in Delhi, 1916 Nehru in 1919 with wife Kamala and daughter Indira. Nehru's father, Motilal, was an important moderate leader of the Indian National Congress. The moderates believed British rule was modernising, and sought reform and more participation in government in cooperation with British authorities. [23]
Nayantara Sahgal (born 10 May 1927) is an Indian writer who writes in English. She is a member of the Nehru–Gandhi family, the second of the three daughters born to Jawaharlal Nehru's sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
Indira Gandhi was born Indira Nehru, into a Kashmiri Pandit family on 19 November 1917 in Allahabad (present-day Prayagraj) in Uttar Pradesh. [12] [13] Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a leading figure in the Indian movement for independence from British rule, and became the first Prime Minister of the Dominion (and later Republic) of India. [14]
Shyamala’s family stressed the importance of education for all their children. Kamala remembers visiting her grandparents, a diplomat and a women's rights activist, in India, and shared about it ...
She was married to Kailas Nath Kaul, brother of Kamala Nehru and a renowned botanist who established the National Botanical Research Institute in Lucknow, India. Gautam Kaul, a former Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police [6] and film critic, [7] and Vikram Kaul, an international sports administrator, [8] are their sons.