Nehru joined both leagues but worked especially for the former.

At Nehru's invitation, in 1950 Rajaji joined the Union Cabinet as Minister without Porfolio where he served as a buffer between Nehru and Home Minister Sardar Patel and on occasion offered to mediate between the two.

Sandip Das, a biographer, says that Returning from the US in late 1929 as a supporter of Marxist theories, Narayan joined the Indian National Congress on the invitation of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1929 ; Mahatma Gandhi became his mentor in the Congress.

Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a pivotal figure in the independence movement of India.

Nehru harboured doubts regarding the ineffectualness of the Congress but agreed to work for the party in support of the Indian civil rights movement in South Africa.

Nehru, however, was not satisfied with the pace of the national movement.

The first big national involvement of Nehru came at the onset of the non-cooperation movement in 1920.

In the rift that formed within the Congress following the sudden closure of the non-cooperation movement after the Chauri Chaura incident, Nehru remained loyal to Gandhi and did not join the Swaraj Party formed by his father Motilal Nehru and CR Das.

Nehru helped to make the struggle of the people in the princely states a part of the nationalist movement for freedom.

After the Lahore session of the Congress in 1929, Nehru gradually emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian independence movement.

Nehru would continue to maintain his commitment to the non-aligned movement despite calls from some to settle down on one permanent ally.

Nehru was jailed for his participation in the Quit India movement along with other Indian leaders, and he used this time to write down his thoughts and knowledge about India's history.

* 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.

Nehru and other Congress members drifted further apart from Gandhi, who withdrew from Congress to concentrate on his Constructive Programme, which included his efforts to end untouchability in the Harijan movement.

Menon also worked assiduously to ensure that Nehru would succeed Mahatma Gandhi as the moral leader and executive of the Indian independence movement, and to clear the way for Nehru's eventual accession as the first Prime Minister of an independent India.

The city remained as a major centre of the Indian independence movement from Indian Rebellion of 1857 until the independence as many national leaders visited the city during the movement such as Lala Lajpat Rai in 1886, Subhas Chandra Bose in 1938, and Jawaharlal Nehru in 1946.

Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, the second Governor-General of India, and a Bharat Ratna, was a close colleague of Nehru during the independence movement.

During the independence movement, the All India session of the Congress was held under the presidency of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das in 1922, which was attended by great illumanaries and prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement, such as Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Dr Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad, Nehru and Sri Krishna Sinha.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru visited Hailakandi in 1939 and 1945 respectively at the invitation of Mazumdar to strengthen the freedom movement as well as the Congress party in southern Assam.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru visited Hailakandi in 1939 and 1945 respectively at the invitation of Mazumdar to strengthen the freedom movement as well as the Congress party in southern Assam.

Drafted by Jawaharlal Nehru, the resolution, which later formed the basis for some of the Directive Principles, placed the primary responsibility of carrying out social reform on the State, and marked the increasing influence of socialism and Gandhian philosophy on the independence movement.

Many prominent figures of the Indian independence movement, including Motilal Nehru, were persuaded by Gandhi to renounce their smart London-made clothes in favour of khadi.

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.

In the preparation for this movement Mahatma Gandhi along with Jawahar Lal Nehru had visited the district on October 8, 1919.

Nehru quickly rose to prominence under the mentorship of Gandhi.

Tongmi was educated in India and had recently been appointed leader of the military brass band when the need for an anthem rose at the occasion of a state visit from prime minister Nehru of 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.

In 1957, Vajpayee was elected to the Lok Sabha, where his oratorical skills so impressed the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that he predicted that Vajpayee would someday become India's Prime Minister.

The Congress leadership approached to Ali Khan to become a part of the party, but after attending the meeting with Jawaharlal Nehru, Ali Khan's political views and ambitions gradually changed.

A compartment in the Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital has become her virtual nest, where the poet in Sharmila pens her verses.

Rajendra Prasad ( center ), who went on to become the first president of India, alongside Jawaharlal Nehru and Bhulabhai Desai at the AICC Session in April 1939

The British soon realized the threat that Kamala Nehru posed to them and how popular she had become with women's groups all over India.

Along with Subhas Chandra Bose, Nehru was considered a radical within the party during his tenure as general secretary due to his rejection of dominion status for India in favour of complete independence.

He taught at the Delhi School of Economics ( DSE ) ( 1954 ), and was Jawaharlal Nehru fellow ( 1970 – 72 ) and secretary to the ministry of external affairs ( 1976 ).

The institute also gained major assistance through Pitamber Pant, who was a secretary to the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

During these years, Menon became a passionate proponent of India's freedom, working as a journalist and as secretary of the India League from 1929 to 1947, and a close friend of fellow Indian nationalist leader and future Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as such political and intellectual figures as Bertrand Russell, J. B. S.

Transfer of Power, 8 Aug 1947 meeting ) Nehru opposed him tooth and nail and was overruled by Mountbatten. In Feb 48, he was asked to lead Defense Staff College, Wellington. In 1950, he predicted problems for India after conquest of Tibet by China and sparred with visiting Foreign secretary of India at Wellington .( Ref.

According to Read, there is some circumstantial evidence that Nehru and Patel were secretly informed of the Punjab Award's contents on August 9 or 10, either through Mountbatten or Radcliffe's Indian assistant secretary.

He was appointed an MBE in the 1945 New Year Honours List. Nehru became the secretary of economic affairs in 1957.

When Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became president of All India Congress Committee, he was elected its general secretary ; in 1957, he was selected for Lok Sabha.

The institute gained major assistance through Pitamber Pant, who was a secretary to the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Nehru appointed Lohia as the first secretary of the committee.

It was prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference chaired by Motilal Nehru with his son Jawaharlal acting as secretary.