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Jawaharlal Nehru

Personal data
Date of birth14 November 1889
Place of birthKerala Kingdom, British India
Date of death27 May 1964(age 74)
Place of deathNew Delhi, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
SpouseKamala Kaul
RelationsMotilal Nehru (father)
Swaroop Rani (mother)
ChildrenIndira Gandhi
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
ProfessionBarrister
ReligionAgnostic atheism
1st Prime Minister of India
In office15 August 1947 - 27 May 1964
PresidentRajendra Prasad
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Governor generalThe Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
DeputyVallabhbhai Patel
Succeeded byGulzarilal Nanda (Acting)
Preceded byPosition established
Minister of Defence
In office31 October 1962 - 14 November 1962
Succeeded byYashwantrao Chavan
Preceded byVengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon
In office30 January 1957 - 17 April 1957
Succeeded byVengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon
Preceded byKailash Nath Katju
In office10 February 1953 - 10 January 1955
Succeeded byKailash Nath Katju
Preceded byN. Gopalaswami Ayyangar
Minister of Finance
In office13 February 1958 - 13 March 1958
Succeeded byMorarji Desai
Preceded byTiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachariar
In office24 July 1956 - 30 August 1956
Succeeded byTiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachariar
Preceded byChintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh
Minister of External Affairs
In office15 August 1947 - 27 May 1964
Succeeded byGulzarilal Nanda
Preceded byPosition established

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Jawaharlal Nehru (-hidʒəʋaːɦərˈlaːl ˈneːɦruIPAHi-JawaharlalNehru, often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who was the first and longest-serving Prime Minister of India (1947 � 1964). One of the leading figures in the Indian Independence Movement during the 1930s and '40s, Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister, and re-elected when the Congress Party won India's first general election in 1952. Nehru contributed to the establishment of a secular Parliamentary democracy in India and was one of the founders of the international Non-Aligned Movement.

The son of moderate nationalist leader and Congressman Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru became a leader of the left wing of the Congress when fairly young. Rising to become Congress President under the mentorship of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Nehru was a charismatic and radical leader, advocating complete independence for India from the British Empire. In the long struggle for Indian independence, Nehru was eventually recognized as Gandhi's political heir. Throughout his life, Nehru advocated Fabian Socialism and a strong Public sector as the means by which economic development could be pursued by poorer nations. He was father to Indira Gandhi who was the third Prime Minister of the Republic of India.


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