Jawaharlal Nehru (Pandit Nehru) is one of the largest influential figures within India during the fight for independence pre-1947 against British imperialism. When Nehru...
Indira Priyadarshini was born on November 19, 1917, she was the only child of Jawaharal Nehru and his wife Kamala in the city of Allahabad in Northern India. The second part of her...
POLICY OBJECTIVES Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundations of modern India. His vision and determination have left a lasting impression on every facet of...
trauma of partition. The nationalist movement, led by Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, aimed to gather what was then British India along with the 562 princely states under...
in the continent of Asia. A major figure in India's decision making was Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Congress Party, head of the Planning Commission and chief spokesman of...
Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. At Gandhi's wake, Nehru and Patel embraced each other and addressed the nation together. Despite working together, the two...
in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992 she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru peace prize by the Government of India for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under...
India became a Republic, and the Constitution of India was promulgated. Jawaharlal Nehru had become the country's first Prime Minister in 1947, and in 1952, in the country's...
Speaking about the importance of universities Jawaharlal Nehru once said, "A university stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for progress, for the...
more than the sum of its contradictions. It is a country held together, in the words of Nehru, "by strong but invisible threads ... a myth and an idea, a dream and a vision, and...
leader who inspired them, it was more often Mahatma Gandhi rather than Jawaharlal Nehru. Sociologist Andre Beteille thinks that Nehru's decline as a national figure is a...
percentile than those of upper classes. It was with India's first democratic leader, Nehru, that the Indian people were initially introduced to democracy. This is because Nehru...
and commission also helped to make it possible." In this context it can be seen that Nehru, as the leader of the Congress after the 1937 elections, because of his slight of the...
age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance." -Jawarhalal Nehru 14 August, 1947, saw the birth of the new Islamic Republic of Pakistan. At midnight...
Amy Pojar 3/13/2008 Literacy Rates Affecting Women and Development in India Jawaharlal Nehru once said that you could tell a lot about the development of a nation by looking at...
India was given its independence in 1947, under India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, "the country tried various methods of development, at theoretical and practical...
percentile than those of upper classes. It was with India's first democratic leader, Nehru, that the Indian people were initially introduced to democracy. This is because Nehru...
percentile than those of upper classes. It was with India's first democratic leader, Nehru, that the Indian people were initially introduced to democracy. This is because Nehru...
The Role of Government in the Economy Many early post independence leaders, such as Nehru, were influenced by socialist ideas and advocated government intervention to guide the...