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After returning to India in August 1912, Nehru enrolled himself as an advocate of the Allahabad High Court and tried to settle down as a barrister.

But, unlike his father, he had only a desultory interest in his profession and did not relish either the practice of law or the company of lawyers.

Nehru wrote: " Decidedly the atmosphere was not intellectually stimulating and a sense of the utter insipidity of life grew upon me.

His involvement in nationalist politics would gradually replace his legal practice in the coming years.