Following Gandhi's and Congress ' approval of the plan, Patel represented India on the Partition Council, where he oversaw the division of public assets, and selected the Indian council of ministers with Nehru.

With pressure building up from forces sympathetic to Pakistan on Kashmir and with Nehru allied too closely to Shaikh Abdullah who represented only the interests of the Valley and not those of Muslims or Hindus of Jammu or the Ladakhis, Kak thought it most prudent to buy time and improve Kashmir's bargaining position.

At the time, Congress's leader Jawaharlal Nehru was a democratic socialist whose sentiments were widely admired by the rank and file of the CSP, but they objected to his apparent unwillingness to act decisively in favour of democratic socialism or to renounce his dependence upon the conservative Hindu wing of the party represented by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel or C. Rajagopalachari.

He was famously tried by the British Raj in the Red Fort Trial in 1945, represented by Jawaharlal Nehru himself.

Again, India has imposed formidable barriers against the entrance of additional missionaries, and fanatical Hindu parties are expected to seek further action against Christians once the influence making for tolerance due to Nehru and his followers is gone.

Given Mountbatten's determination, Nehru and Patel's inability to deal with the Muslim League and lastly Jinnah's obstinacy, all Indian party leaders ( except Gandhi ) acquiesced to Jinnah's plan to divide India, which in turn eased Mountbatten's task.

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governments of India during the 1950s, an intimate of Nehru who served as the American ambassador from 1961 to 1963, was a particularly harsh critic of Mountbatten in this regard.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī, née Nehru ; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984 ) was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms ( 1966 – 77 ) and a fourth term ( 1980 – 84 ).

Gandhi was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India.

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

Jawaharlal Nehru (, 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964 ), often referred to as Panditji, was an Indian politician and statesman, a leader in the Indian Independence Movement, and the first Prime Minister of independent India.

Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Allahabad in British India.

Nanda, these scriptures were Nehru's " first introduction to the religious and cultural heritage of .... provided Nehru the initial impulse for long intellectual quest which culminated ... in the Discovery of India.

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.

Nehru also spoke out against the censorship acts passed by the British government in India.

Nehru joined the movement and rose to become secretary of Besant's All India Home Rule League.

Nehru returned to India in 1912, where he worked as a barrister in Allahabad while moving up the ranks of the Congress during World War I.

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.

Krishna Menon ( to whom Nehru had delegated the task of integrating the princely states into India ) negotiate with hundreds of princes.

In July 1946, Nehru pointedly observed that no princely state could prevail militarily against the army of independent India.

In January 1947, Nehru said that independent India would not accept the Divine Right of Kings, and in May 1947, he declared that any princely state which refused to join the Constituent Assembly would be treated as an enemy state.

During the drafting of the Indian constitution, many Indian leaders ( except Nehru ) of that time were in favour of allowing each Princely state or Covenanting State to be independent as a federal state along the lines suggested originally by the Government of India act ( 1935 ).

At midnight on New Year's Eve 1929, Nehru hoisted the tricolour flag of India upon the banks of the Ravi in Lahore.

All these aims formed the core of the " Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy " resolution drafted by Nehru in 1929-31 and were ratified by the All India Congress Committee under Gandhi's leadership.

Nehru was also given the responsibility of planning the economy of a future India.

However, many of the plans framed by Nehru and his colleagues would come undone with the unexpected partition of India in 1947.

The name Van Mahotsava ( the festival of trees ) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated.

It has been noted that this was a key part of the process of the reduction of the Indian economy from sophisticated textile production to a mere supplier of raw materials which occurred under colonial rule, a process described by Nehru and more recent scholars as " de-industrialization.

Mountbatten was fond of Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru and his liberal outlook for the country.

Indira Nehru was born on 19 November 1917 at the Anand Bhavan in the historically important town of Allahabad, in what was then the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, into the politically influential Nehru family.

Indira Gandhi's father was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mother was Kamla Nehru.

Her grandfather, Motilal Nehru, was a prominent Indian nationalist leader.

During her time in Europe, Nehru was plagued with ill-health and was constantly attended by doctors.

Nehru tried to return to England through Portugal but was left stranded for nearly two months.

During her stay in the UK, Nehru frequently met her future husband Feroze Gandhi, whom she knew from Allahabad, and who was studying at the London School of Economics.

In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.

Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister in 1947, and re-elected when the Congress party won India's first general election in 1951.

Nehru was subsequently initiated into the Theosophical Society at age thirteen by family friend Annie Beasant.

Nehru was elected chairman of the Allahabad Municipal Board in 1923.

Nehru was elected in his place and held the presidency for two years ( 1936 – 37 ).

Once elected, Nehru headed an interim government, which was impaired by outbreaks of communal violence and political disorder, and the opposition of the Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who were demanding a separate Muslim state of Pakistan.

** Nehru is elected leader of the Congress Party in India.

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.

In 1923, Nehru was elected to the new Central Legislative Assembly of British India in New Delhi and became leader of the Opposition.

When in 1929, Motilal Nehru handed over the Congress presidency to Jawaharlal ( Jawaharlal was elected, with Gandhi's backing ), it greatly pleased Motilal and Nehru family admirers to see the son take over from his father.

In 1951 he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Mandsaur constituency, joining the cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru as Law Minister in 1951.

Further Ariyanayagam Chandra Nehru a founder member of the pro-LTTE NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights ( NESHOR ) and also a former Member of Parliament of Tamil National Alliance elected from Amparai in Eastern Sri Lanka was ambushed and killed on February 7, 2005.

* 3 April-Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto Prime Minister of India.

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.