Western scholars have mostly praised Nehru for the integration of the states into a modern republic but the act was not accepted universally in India.

He pioneered the policy of non-alignment and co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement of nations professing neutrality between the rival blocs of nations led by the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. Recognising the People's Republic of China soon after its founding ( while most of the Western bloc continued relations with the Republic of China ), Nehru argued for its inclusion in the United Nations and refused to brand the Chinese as the aggressors in their conflict with Korea.

" It held ideological similarity and a favourable outlook to the Non-Aligned Movement politics of Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Josip Broz Tito, and historically opposed affiliation with either the American-led Western Bloc or the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.

The main roads passing through Santa Cruz ( E ) are the Western Express Highway, Nehru Road and the Kalina-Kurla Link Road.

The road stretching from the Western Express Highway to the Military Camp is called Nehru Road.

* Vakola Police Station: Located at the intersection of Nehru Road and the Western Express Highway, on the Vakola side of the flyover

Sardar Patel Marg marks the Western periphery, while ‘ Chanakya cinema ’ complex, which lies beyond Nehru Park, marks south-west periphery.

These leaders included India's prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Obafemi Awolowo, who later became the premier of Nigeria's defunct Western Region, and the founder of Pakistan, Barrister Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

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.

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

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

Nehru went to Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1907 and graduated with an honours degree in natural science in 1910.

Nehru was disconcerted with what he saw as a " very much an English-knowing upper class affair.

Nehru confessed that he viewed the war with mixed feelings.

Nehru in 1918 with wife Kamala Nehru | Kamala and daughter Indira Gandhi | Indira

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

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 co-operated with Dr. N. S.

During the mid-1930s, Nehru was much concerned with developments in Europe, which seemed to be drifting toward another world war.

Nehru closely worked with Subhash Bose in developing good relations with governments of free countries all over the world.

Nehru along with his aide V. K.

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

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 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.

Nehru and most of the Congress leaders were initially ambivalent about Gandhi's plan to begin civil disobedience with a satyagraha aimed at the British salt tax.

Nehru considered the salt satyagraha the high water mark of his association with Gandhi, and felt that its lasting importance was in changing the attitudes of Indians:

Nehru developed good relations with governments all over the world.

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

After much deliberation the Congress under Nehru informed the government that it would cooperate with the British but on certain conditions.

When Nehru presented Lord Linlithgow with the demands, he chose not to take them seriously.

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.

“ 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 .”

In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

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.

India presented a frontier map which was accepted by China, and the Indian government under Prime Minister Nehru promoted the slogan Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai ( Indians and Chinese are brothers ).

Most of the sea trade happens through the Kandla and Jawaharlal Nehru Port ( Nhava Sheva ) in the neighboring states, which are well-connected to MP by road and rail networks.

There are three International cricket stadiums in state – Nehru Stadium, Indore, Roop Singh Stadium ( Gwalior ) and Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Ground ( Indore ).

Further, this fact is confirmed and reiterated from the correspondence of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir dated October 26, 1947 with Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of India which states that the state of Jammu and Kashmir has a common boundary with the “ Soviet Republic ”, and the said statement also determines the fact that inter alia Gilgit and Kanjut ( which includes the Raskam, Hunza valley and Taghdumbash ) are integral parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had also made a similar statement that " Jammu and Kashmir's Northern

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.

First class cricket matches are held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium ( formerly the Khajamalai Stadium ).

Harrow has many notable alumni, who are known as Old Harrovians, including seven former British Prime Ministers including Winston Churchill and Robert Peel ( the creator of the modern Police Force and founder of the Conservative Party ), and the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.

There are several other English medium schools like Haridevi Jhutharam Shishu Sadan, CEERI Vidhya Mandir, Jawahar lal Nehru Children Academy, Jamuna Mishra Academy ( JMA ) and Birla Sishu Vihar.

Today, his private papers are part of the Archives at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, at Teen Murti House, Delhi.

There was widespread violence against the Muslims as an aftermath of the ' Police Action ' ( officially Operation Polo ) and Nehru had a committee investigate the pogrom against Muslims, but the resulting Sundarlal Report was never made public ( an estimated 50 – 200, 000 Muslims are believed to have been killed ).

The Hanging Gardens, Mumbai, in Mumbai, India, also known as Pherozeshah Mehta Gardens, are terraced gardens perched at the top of Malabar Hill, on its western side, just opposite the Kamala Nehru Park.

These are the same sort of collars seen on achkans, sherwanis, and Nehru jackets.

His concerns on the socio-political issues, from local to global level are revealed in his series, Letters to Uncle Sam, and those to Pandit Nehru.

He said that Nehru evaluates that Muslims are spiritually weak and is running a scheme to merge Muslims in Hindu faith.

The Sky Theater shows at Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium are very popular and attract about more than 200, 000 visitors per year.

The Sky Theater shows at Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium are very popular and attract about more than 2 lakhs visitors per year.

Today there are a number of educational institution named after him, like Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Motilal Nehru College, Delhi, and Motilal Nehru Medical College, Allahabad.