Yasmin Khan argued that Gandhi's death and funeral helped consolidate the authority of the new Indian state under Nehru and Patel.

Nehru would have been proud of the melting pot he had helped create.

Nehru refused to align with either the United States or the Soviet Union, and helped found the Non-Aligned Movement.

From this belief is derived the practical orientation of our policy on the `` uncommitted '' ( `` neutralist '', `` contested '' ) nations, especially on those whose leaders make the most noise -- Nehru, Tito, Nkrumah, Sukarno, Betancourt, etc..

Nehru was one of the first leaders to demand that the Congress Party should resolve to make a complete and explicit break from all ties with the British Empire.

When the Japanese carried their attack through Burma ( now Myanmar ) to the borders of India in the spring of 1942, the British government, faced by this new military threat, decided to make some overtures to India, as Nehru had originally desired.

Nehru had a powerful ally in the US president Dwight Eisenhower who, if relatively silent publicly, went to the extent of using America ’ s clout in the IMF to make Britain and France back down.

In 1957, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister at the time, invited him to India to make the documentary India and put some life into the floundering Indian Films Division.

Patel clashed with Nehru and Azad over the allocation of houses in Delhi vacated by Muslims leaving for Pakistan — Nehru and Azad desired to allocate them for displaced Muslims, while Patel argued that no government professing secularism must make such exclusions.

Nehru assured him that India would support Indonesia and would make the support known at international forums such as the United Nations ( UN ).

Sri Venkateswara College, Lady Shri Ram College, Jesus and Mary College and Motilal Nehru College are some of the colleges that make up the south campus of the Delhi University.

Nehru played a leading role in the development of the internationalist outlook of the Indian freedom struggle.

Laxmi was the daughter of one of his early followers, a wealthy Jain who had been a key supporter of the National Congress Party during the struggle for Indian independence, with close ties to Gandhi, Nehru and Morarji Desai.

* Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-a pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement under whose influence were all the major political leaders of the Indian freedom struggle including Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhai Patel.

From there, he would relish the talks given by the barber, Ratan, eloquent on the local political situation in Mauritius and the current passionate struggle for Indian liberation under Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Rash Behari Bose.

When Mahatma Gandhi aborted the struggle in 1922 following the Chauri Chaura Incident, Patel left the Congress to form the Swaraj Party with Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru, which would seek to foil the Raj by sabotaging the government after gaining entry in the councils.

He was a resident of Pusa, Samastipur and was associated with Swami Sahajanand Saraswati in the Kisan Movement during the freedom struggle. Shri Satya narayan sinha was accommodated by Pandit Jawahar lal Nehru in his first cabinet and also served as Governor.

Biju Patnaik came in contact with Nehru during his participation in Indian freedom struggle.

Nehru was sympathetic to the freedom struggle of the Indonesian people who had traditional links with Indian sub-continent from the ancient days.

Nehru backed the independence movement in Tanzania and other African nations, as well as the American Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. and the anti-apartheid struggle of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress in South Africa.

At the same time, Nehru had supported the people of Spain who were fighting to defend themselves against Franco.

Nehru was one of the first nationalist leaders to realise the sufferings of the people in the states ruled by Indian Princes.

Nehru who had been supporting the cause of the people of the princely states for many years was made the President of the conference in 1935.

This was the result of the annexation of Goa in 1961 by India, when Nehru promised the people that their laws would be left intact.

He observed the effects of superstition on the lives of the Indian people and wrote of religion that “… it shuts its eyes to reality .” Nehru thought that religion was at the root of the stagnation and lack of progress in India.

Nehru observed that these attitudes and religious taboos were preventing India from going forward and adapting to modern conditions: “ No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded .” Therefore, he concurred, that religions and all that went with them must be severely limited before they ruined the country and its people.

* An under-construction footbridge at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, one of the main venues for 2010 Commonwealth Games collapsed on September 21, 2010, a few weeks before the opening ceremony, injuring 27 people.

In his meetings with Nehru, Krishnamurti elaborated at length on the teachings, saying in one instance, “ Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things ; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you.

Gandhi, Nehru and other historic personalities continued on the postal issues coming from the country since Independence, with almost half a century seeing the Gandhi definitives of denominations most frequently used in the era concerned, becoming synonymous with a postage stamp to the Indian people of that respective time period.

Goel claimed that there is a Media bias in India, in particular with regard to criticism of Islam or people like Nehru.

According to his official biography, he also met many notable people, including French president Charles de Gaulle as soon as 1944, Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba, US president Dwight David Eisenhower, Indian Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, socialist Jayaprakash Narayan, comedian Coluche, president François Mitterrand, president Jacques Chirac and Mohammed V of Morocco.

Diorama of Lisu people in Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar.

Near life-size diorama of the Monpa people at the Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Diorama of Idu Mishmi people in Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar.

Decentralisation, where power and freedom vests with people at the lowest levels, was anathema to Nehru.

Diorama of Singpho people in Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar.

Diorama of Nocte people in Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar.

Diorama of Tangsa people in Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar.

The hope behind the Assembly was expressed by Jawaharlal Nehru: " The first task of this Assembly is to free India through a new constitution, to feed the starving people, and to cloth the naked masses, and to give every Indian the fullest opportunity to develop himself according to his capacity.

Diorama of Wancho people in Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar.

As Prime Minister Nehru retained the organization and its top people, albeit with a change of title to the " Indian Administrative Service ".

After independence and partition a large body of Muslims were left in India and hence the leaders like Gandhi and Nehru preferred to keep India secular in the sense that Indian state will have no religion though people of India will be free both in individual and corporate sense to follow any religion of their birth or adoption.