FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF THE INDIA.

 NEHRU WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 14, 1889 IN ALLAHABAD, UTTAR PRADESH. BORN WITH THE PROVERBIAL SILVER SPOON, JAWAHARLAL HAD A WESTERN UPBRINGING AND STUDIED IN THE FAMOUS HARROW SCHOOL AND TRINITY COLLEGE IN ENGLAND. IN 1916, AT THE AGE OF 27, JAWAHARLAL MARRIED KAMALA KAUL AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR SAW THE BIRTH OF THEIR ONLY CHILD INDIRA PRIYADARSHINI. AFTER AN INITIAL BRUSH WITH LEGAL PRACTICE, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU JOINED THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND STARTED HIS POLITICAL CAREER UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF FATHER MOTILAL NEHRU.

AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL CHAMPARAN AND KHEDA SATYAGRAHAS, MAHATMA GHANDI EMERGED AS THE UNDISPUTED LEADER OF THE MASSES AND NEHRU SOON BECAME ONE OF HIS TRUSTED AIDES. UNDER GHANDHIS INFLUENCE NEHRU SHUNNED HIS WESTERN LIFESTYLE AND TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY TO GARNER RESISTANCE AGAINST THE BRITISH. THROUGH THE 1920s JAWAHARLAL NEHRU EARNED ACCOLADES FOR HIS PASSIONATE ANTI-BRITISH STANCE AND WAS ELECTED CONGRESS PARTY PRESIDENT IN THE 1929 LAHORE SESSION.

NEHRU PLAYED A PROMINENT ROLE IN THE 1930 SALT SATYAGRAHA LAUNCHED BY GHANHI AND WHEN CONGRESS CALLED FOR THE HISTORIC QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT IN 1942, HE AND SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE WERE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE MASS PROTESTS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT. THE MOMENT OF FREEDOM HAS ARRIVED AND AFTER SOME INTERNAL CONFLICTS IN THE CONGRESS PARTY  NEHRU WAS CHOSEN AS THE HEAD OF THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT. HE TOOK OFFICE AS THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA ON AUGUST 15, 1947.

AS INDEPENDENT INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU LAUNCHED A SERIES OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INITIATIVES IN LINE WITH HIS VISION OF SOCIALIST INDIAN NATION. APART FROM DOMESTIC ISSUES,  NEHRU EMPHASIZED ON FORGING ALLIANCES WITH OTHER LIKE-MINDED COUNTRIES AND WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN FOUNDING THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT. THE 1962 CHINESE INVASION OF INDIA'S NORTH EASTERN STATES WAS A BIG SETBACK TO NEHRU'S PEACEFUL POLICIES AND HIS GOVERNMENT ALSO HAD TO FACE CORRUPTION CHARGES. AFTER A PERIOD OF ILLNESS, PANDIT NEHRU PASSED AWAY ON MY 27, 1964.