Nehru wrote: " for nearly three years was with me and in many ways he influenced me greatly.

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

“ The same old game is played again ,” Nehru wrote bitterly to Gandhi, “ the background is the same, the various epithets are the same and the actors are the same and the results must be the same .”

During the conflict, Nehru wrote two desperate letters to U. S. President John F. Kennedy, requesting 12 squadrons of fighter jets and a modern radar system.

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.

In 1954, Prime Minister Nehru wrote a memo calling for India's borders to be clearly defined and demarcated ; in line with previous Indian philosophy, Indian maps showed a border that, in some places, lay north of the McMahon Line.

On July 1, 1954 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a memo directing that the maps of India be revised to show definite boundaries on all frontiers.

When Ram idols were allegedly placed in the Mosque illegally on December 23, 1949, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, G. B. Pant, demanding their removal because " a dangerous example is being set there.

Commenting on the 1954 enunciation of them, Peter Lyon, a UK academic specializing in international relations, wrote: " Though neutralists in general, and at that time Mr Nehru in particular, seemed to regard these principles as being a special contribution to world politics, they were not at all original, were repetitious, and really boiled down to the edict that a state's independence should not be infringed.

He was initially hesitant but accepted when Nehru wrote to him, " I hope you will not disappoint us.

Nehru was furious and wrote to Rajaji saying " the one thing we must avoid giving is the impression that we stick to office and we want to keep others out at all costs.

Nehru, in his preface to the Report of the Committee, which was published in 1955, wrote: " They ( different calendars ) represent past political divisions in the country … now that we have attained Independence, it is obviously desirable that there should be a certain uniformity in the calendar for our civic, social and other purposes and this should be done on a scientific approach to this problem.

Though there are many articles and books written about him from India and Europe, most of which is not hagiographical, his ' pen played not an inconsiderable part in the political and social ferments that have stirred the aters of Indian life ', as the Earl of Ronaldshay wrote in 1925, what Nehru said in a speech during Pal's birth centenary in 1958 surmises ' a great man who functioned on a high level on both religious and political planes ' opens a gate for enquiring this high-minded yet anomalous persona.

Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a foreword to just two books, one of which was Bamzai's History of Kashmir ( the other was Sanskriti ke char adhyaya by Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh ' Dinkar ').

In 1960 Rajaji and other Swatantra leaders wrote about why Swatantra Party had to be formed despite having worked closely with Nehru to obtain independence for India:

Indian civil servant C. S. Venkatachar wrote that the Kashmir issue might have been resolved in favour of India had Jawaharlal Nehru chosen C. P. instead of Gopalaswami Ayyangar to present India's case at the United Nations.

According to Yevgenii Pasternak, his father would have been exiled had it not been for Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who telephoned Khrushchev and threatened to found a Committee for Pasternak ’ s protection.

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.

The then Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, allowed in the Dalai Lama and his coterie of Tibetan government officials.

* 1946 – The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.

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.

Edwina and India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru became intimate friends after Indian Independence.

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 ).

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

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.

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.

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.

His father, Motilal Nehru ( 1861-1931 ), a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community, served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle.

Nehru had developed an interest in Indian politics during his time in Britain.

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 ridiculed the Indian Civil Service ( ICS ) for its support of British policies.

Nehru welcomed and encouraged the rapprochement between the two Indian communities.

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

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

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 ).

But as the drafting of the constitution progressed and the idea of forming a republic took concrete shape ( due to the efforts of Nehru ), it was decided that all the Princely states / Covenanting States would merge with the Indian republic.

Nehru drafted the Indian declaration of independence, which stated:

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

Nehru elaborated the policies of the Congress and a future Indian nation under his leadership in 1929.

In March 1926, Nehru demanded a representative conference to draft a constitution conferring full Dominion status on India, to be and enacted by the parliament.

Nehru Report, the first constitution written by Indians only, conceived a dominion status for India within the Empire, akin to Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

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.

A different approach was considered by some, though, as the draft outline constitution in the Nehru Report included such a bill of rights.

The " Nehru Report " ( august 1928 ) was a memorandum outlining a proposed new Dominion ( see dominion status ) constitution for India.

The constitution outlined by the Nehru report was for Indian enjoying dominion status within the British Commonwealth.