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The Nehru–Gandhi family is an Indian political family that has occupied a prominent place in the politics of India. The involvement of the family has traditionally revolved around the Indian National Congress , as various members have traditionally led the party.
Motilal Nehru (6 May 1861 – 6 February 1931) was an Indian lawyer, activist, and politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress. He served as the Congress President twice, from 1919 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1929. He was a patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family and the father of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. [2]
Brijlal Nehru (1884–1964) Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Kamala Kaul (1899–1936) Ranjit Sitaram Pandit (1893-1944) Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru (1900–1990) Gunottam Hutheesing: Krishna Nehru (1907–1967) Shyam Kumari Khan (1904-1980) Anand Kumar Nehru: Braj Kumar Nehru (1909–2001) Magdolna Friedmann (1908–2017) Indira Priyadarshini Nehru ...
Raj Kaul, according to the Nehru family tradition, was an Indian Sanskrit and Persian scholar from Kashmir, who had been recruited in 1716 by the then Mughul Emperor, Farrukhsiyar (1683 – 1719), to move to Old Delhi, where he settled near a canal and came to be known with a hyphenated Kaul-Nehru, with Nehru evolving from the word nehar, meaning canal.
Anand Bhawan the Nehru family home in Allahabad. Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Allahabad in British India. His father, Motilal Nehru (1861–1931), a self-made wealthy barrister who was born into the Kashmiri Pandit community, served twice as president of the Indian National Congress, in 1919 and 1928.
The eldest, Banshidhar Nehru, started working in the Justice Department after the establishment of Victoria's rule in India and was continuously appointed to various places across the country, which kept him away from the family. The second son, Nandlal Nehru, served as the Diwan of Khetri, [20] a princely state in Rajasthan, for about ten ...
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