Nehru hurried back from a visit to China, announcing that, in a conflict between democracy and Fascism, “ our sympathies must inevitably be on the side of democracy ......

Jawaharlal Nehru ( right ) with Muhammad Ali Bogra, Prime Minister of Pakistan ( left ), during his 1953 visit to Karachi

Sukarno at Borobudur with Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi during their visit to Indonesia

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.

Patel's sincere and earnest efforts inspired Kurien to dedicate himself to the challenging task before them, so much so, that when Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was to visit Anand later, to inaugurate Amul's plant, he embraced Kurien for his groundbreaking work.

Indian PM Jawaharlal Nehru talks to PM Bogra in his 1953 visit to Karachi.

There is a folk legend, that this statue was raised because Nikita Khrushchev upon visiting India, told Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that there was a statue of Nikitin in Russia when in fact there was not ( Nehru had asked if the Russians had honored the first Russian to visit India ).

The people of this district received a fresh impetus with the next visit of Mahatma Gandhi along with Jawahar Lal Nehru on October 8, 1929.

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

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

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.

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.

In the summer of 1938 Marzani and his second wife traveled around the world, visiting India, Indochina, China, Japan, and Europe, using Communist Party contacts to meet Nehru and others.

In 1936, Nehru enrolled at Somerville College, Oxford, University of Oxford in United Kingdom.

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

Gandhi returned to active politics again in 1936, with the Nehru presidency and the Lucknow session of the Congress.

But Patel would clash with Nehru, opposing declarations of the adoption of socialism at the 1936 Congress session, which he believed was a diversion from the main goal of achieving independence.

Released in November 1936 in broken health, Roy went to Allahabad for recovery, invited by Nehru.

Nehru, in his presidential address at Faizpur session in December 1936, greeted the presence of Roy, as

The phrase " rendezvous with destiny " was used by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1936 Democratic National Convention speech, inspiring the similar phrase " tryst with destiny " by Jawaharlal Nehru.

* Jawaharlal Nehru, 1936, An Autobiography, London.

Kamala Kaul Nehru ( August 1 1899-February 28 1936 ) was a freedom fighter and the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru-leader of the Indian National Congress and the first prime minister of India and the mother of Indira Gandhi.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

Nehru advocated Democratic Socialism / Fabian Socialism and a strong public sector as the means by which economic development could be pursued by poorer nations.

Thus, Nehru came to be seen as a champion of freedom and democracy all over the world.

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 ).

“ 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.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill dispatched Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the war Cabinet who was known to be politically close to Nehru and also knew Jinnah, with proposals for a settlement of the constitutional problem.

Nehru declared the new republic to be a " Union of States ".

This was the result of the annexation of Goa in 1961 by India, when Nehru promised the people that their laws would be left intact.

The role of Nehru, both as Indian Prime Minister and a leader of the Non Aligned Movement was significant ; he tried to be even-handed between the two sides, while denouncing Eden and co-sponsors of the aggression vigorously.

Nehru also asked that these aircraft be manned by American pilots until Indian airmen were trained to replace them.

Nehru began to be frequently embarrassed by her ruthlessness and disregard for parliamentary tradition, and was " hurt " by what he saw as an assertiveness with no purpose other than to stake out an identity independent of her father.

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.

For example, " FOB JNPT " means that the exporter delivers the goods to the Jawahar lal Nehru Port, India, and pays for the cargo to be loaded and secured on the ship.

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.

CIA documents created at the time revealed that Nehru had ignored Burmese premier Ba Swe when he warned Nehru to be cautious when dealing with Zhou.

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India praised the Soviets for " a great victory of man over the forces of nature " and urged that it be " considered as a victory for peace.

Nehru emerged from the war years as a leader whose political views were considered radical.

Although the political discourse had been dominated at this time by Gopal Krishna Gokhale, a moderate who said that it was " madness to think of independence ", Nehru had spoken " openly of the politics of non-cooperation, of the need of resigning from honorary positions under the government and of not continuing the futile politics of representation.

Although Gandhi did not officially designate Nehru his political heir until 1942, the country as early as the mid-1930s saw in Nehru the natural successor to Gandhi.

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.

Attempts to introduce large-scale cooperative farming were frustrated by landowning rural elites, who formed the core of the powerful right-wing of the Congress and had considerable political support in opposing the efforts of Nehru.

Nehru, while a pacifist, was not blind to the political and geo-strategic reality of India in 1947.

Nehru, the man and politician made such a powerful imprint on India that his death on 27 May 1964, left India with no clear political heir to his leadership ( although his daughter was widely expected to succeed him before she turned it down in favour of Shastri ).

As India's first Prime minister and external affairs minister, Jawaharlal Nehru played a major role in shaping modern India's government and political culture along with sound foreign policy.

This had also been promised to the Sikh leader Master Tara Singh by Nehru in return for Sikh political support during the negotiations for Indian Independence.

* 1993: The biopic Sardar was produced and directed by Ketan Mehta and featured noted Indian actor Paresh Rawal as Patel ; it focused on Patel's leadership in the years leading up to independence, the partition of India, India's political integration and Patel's relationship with Gandhi and Nehru.

Born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore ( present day Kottayam district, Kerala ), and after a brief stint with journalism and then studying political science at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service in the Nehru administration.

In 1961, this first president of Indonesia also found another political alliance, an organization, called the Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM, in Indonesia known as Gerakan Non-Blok, GNB ) with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, India's Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, and Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, in an action called The Initiative of Five ( Sukarno, Nkrumah, Nasser, Tito, and Nehru ).

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.

* 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.

From there, he would relish the talks given by the barber, Ratan, eloquent on the local political situation in Mauritius and the current passionate struggle for Indian liberation under Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Rash Behari Bose.

The entry of Motilal's glamorous, highly-educated son Jawaharlal Nehru into politics in 1916, started the most powerful and influential Indian political dynasty.

Motilal Nehru is largely remembered for being the patriarch of India's most powerful political dynasty which has since produced three Prime Ministers.

* Motilal Nehru: a short political biography, by A. Pershad, Promilla Suri.

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.