Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian nationalist leader and statesman who became the first prime minister of independent India in 1947. Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad,the son of a lawyer whose family was originally from Kashmir. He was educated in England at Harrow school and then at Trinity college Cambridge. He studied law at the Inner Temple at London. He returned to India in 1912 and practiced law for some years. In 1916 he married Kamala Kaul and the following year they had a daughter Indira. In 1919 Nehru joined Indian National Congress which was fighting for greater autonomy from the British. He was heavily influenced be the organisations leader Mohandas Gandhi. During 1920 to 1930 he was imprisioned many times by the British for civil disobidience. In 1928 he was elected president of the Congress. After independent India Nehru elected as a first prime minister of India. He held the post until his death in 1964. Nehru also served as ...