Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru an Indian freedom fighter, statesman, author, politician.

Widely regarded as the architect of modern India.

First Prime Minister of independent India.

Founder of The National Herald newspaper.

Co-founder of the ‘Independence for India League’, a radical political pressure group within the Indian independence movement.

One of the founders and leading figures of the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War.

Jawaharlal Nehru gave up a wealthy lawyer’s life to fight for India’s independence and spent nearly nine years in British prisons during the freedom movement.

He played a major role in establishing institutions such as IITs, AIIMS, major dams, INCOSPAR, and heavy industries.

Father of Indira Gandhi, the first woman Prime Minister of India.
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