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Nehru and returned
But his accession papers were returned by Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India.
Gandhi returned to active politics again in 1936, with the Nehru presidency and the Lucknow session of the Congress.
When Narayanan returned to India in 1948, Laski gave him a letter of introduction to Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Waugh returned to Australia in preparation for the 1989 – 90 season, having been overlooked for the ODI squad for the Nehru Cup in India.
Tired of being persistently overruled by Nehru with regard to critical decisions, Rajaji submitted his resignation on the " grounds of ill-health " and returned to Madras.
Discouraged, he abandoned acting and returned to India, where he worked as an editor and journalist until the early 1980s, when Richard Attenborough asked Seth to play Jawaharlal Nehru in Gandhi ( 1982 ).
A compromise proposing a decentralized state with much power given to local governments won initial acceptance, but Nehru was unwilling to accept such a decentralized state and Jinnah soon returned to demanding an independent Pakistan.
This demand was rejected by the Assembly, and as a result Nehru and his colleagues left the Assembly and returned to the Congress.
Nehru returned to delhi after two days following a summon from Gandhiji.
They witnessed the struggles of Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru for independence during their stay in India, and inspired them to do the same for their motherland Malaya when they returned.
International cricket returned to Brabourne in 1989 when Australia played a One Day International ( ODI ) against Pakistan during the MRF World Series for the Jawaharlal Nehru Cup.
He and Nehru were among the people arrested even before Mahatma Gandhi returned from the Round Table Conference at London in 1931.

Nehru and India
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.
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.
Nehru represented India and was elected to the Executive Council of the League against Imperialism that was born at this meeting.
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.

Nehru and 1912
Nehru passed his bar examinations in 1912 and was admitted to the English bar.

Nehru and where
In August 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru became the prime minister of independent India, and the family settled in Allahabad, and then at Lucknow, where Feroze became the editor of the National Herald newspaper ( founded by Motilal Nehru ).
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.
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.
Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action .” Nehru asked, “ How does one start ?” to which Krishnamurti replied, “ Begin where you are.
He lived for many years in India where Nehru awarded him the International Award and the Padma Bhushan.
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.
Feroze grew close to the Nehru family, especially to Indira's mother Kamala Nehru, accompanying her to the TB Sanatorium at Bhowali in 1934, helping arrange her trip to Europe when her condition worsened in April 1935, and visiting her at the sanitarium at Badenweiler and finally at Laussane, where he was at her bedside when she died on 28 February 1936.
* Haksar Haveli, Bazar Sitaram, where Jawaharlal Nehru was married in 1916 to Kamla Nehru.
The line was the focus of a brief war in 1962, when Indian and Chinese forces struggled to control land where, " not even a blade of grass grows ," as Indian Prime Minister Nehru put it.
During the Sino-Indian War ( 1962 ), Nehru claimed not to know where the line was: " There is no sense or meaning in the Chinese offer to withdraw twenty kilometers from what they call ' line of actual control '.
The site is also where Nehru and the Indian National Congress declared Indian independence from Britain in 1929.
A compartment in the Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital has become her virtual nest, where the poet in Sharmila pens her verses.
Decentralisation, where power and freedom vests with people at the lowest levels, was anathema to Nehru.
Basu was born to a Bengali family in Delhi, where she lived till the age of eight in Pampoosh Enclave, Nehru Place and studied at Apeejay High School.
Later she worked as Professor of Ancient Indian History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she is Professor Emerita.
* Haksar Haveli, Bazar Sitaram, where Jawaharlal Nehru was married in 1916 to Kamla Nehru.
In 1934, Alfred Sorensen who was earlier introduced to Nehru by Tagore, visited the home of Nehru ’ s sister and brother-in-law at their house Khali, Binsar where he stayed and used his horticultural skills in the garden, while still travelling during the summer.
It was while staying with the Nehru family that one of their friends offered Sorensen a piece of land where he could live on Crank's Ridge, near Almora.

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