Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889, in Allahabad, India. He was the son of Swaroop Rani and Motilal Nehru, a wealthy lawyer and a prominent leader of the Indian independence movement. The Nehru family belonged to the saraswat Brahmin caste. Nehru graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University and came back to India in 1912. In 1916, by his parents' arrangement, he married 17-year-old Kamala from a Kashmiri business family in Delhi. He became the top political leader of the Indian National Congress Party along with his mentor, Mohandas K. Gandhi.

  • When was
    Jawaharlal Nehru born?

    Jawaharlal Nehru was born on Thursday, November 14, 1889

  • Where was
    Jawaharlal Nehru born?

    Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad, North-Western Provces, British India

  • How old was
    Jawaharlal Nehru when they died?

    Jawaharlal Nehru was 75

  • When did Jawaharlal Nehru die?

    Jawaharlal Nehru died on
    Wednesday, May 27, 1964

  • How tall is Jawaharlal Nehru?

    Jawaharlal Nehru is 5'10"(1.78m)


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  • A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
  • The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
  • Every little thing counts in a crisis.
  • Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.
  • Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
  • Great causes and little men go ill together.
  • The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
  • What we need is a generation of peace.
  • Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.
  • You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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