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

After completing his degree in 1910, Nehru went to London and stayed there for two years for law studies at the Inns of Court School of Law ( Inner Temple ).

When the British colonial administration outlawed the Congress party, Nehru went to prison for the first time.

Nehru had a powerful ally in the US president Dwight Eisenhower who, if relatively silent publicly, went to the extent of using America ’ s clout in the IMF to make Britain and France back down.

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.

J. P. went to Wardha to see Gandhi and he met Jawaharlal Nehru.

Armed with the first Tibetan passports, the delegation went first to New Delhi, meeting with Prime Minister Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi.

One country that he went to was India, the homeland of his old friend, Nehru.

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

Rajendra Prasad ( center ), who went on to become the first president of India, alongside Jawaharlal Nehru and Bhulabhai Desai at the AICC Session in April 1939

Others who went on to achieve the highest distinction include four British Prime Ministers — Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Clement Attlee and Herbert Asquith — as well as Carwyn Jones ( First Minister of Wales ), Mahatma Gandhi, M A Jinnah ( first Governor General and founder of Pakistan ), and Jawaharlal Nehru ( first Prime Minister of India ).

He went on a lengthy fast, and only stopped when Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru promised to form Andhra state.

Patel's decisiveness on the partition of Punjab and Bengal had won him many supporters and admirers amongst the Indian public, which had tired of the League's tactics, but he was criticised by Gandhi, Nehru, secular Muslims and socialists for a perceived eagerness to do so.

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.

Nehru assured the Sikhs that they would be allowed to function as a semi-autonomous unit so that they may have a sense of freedom.

In November, 1962 he was recruited to participate in a guerrilla war against Communist China, but he refused, saying " that so long as Pandit Nehru was the Prime Minister of the country, I could be only a traitor to it.

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.

The tandoori chicken at Moti Mahal so impressed the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, that he made it a regular at official banquets.

Manmohan Singh continued to be the Prime Minister and in doing so became only the second Prime Mnister of India after Jawahar Lal Nehru to return to power after a full five year term in office.

Jawaharlal Nehru became so sentimental that tears rolled down his cheeks.

In looking as far back as Moses, thence to Cromwell, Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, and Nehru, Montgomery attempts to trace the stirrings and qualities of great men.

On 15 January 1941 Gandhi had stated: " Some say Pandit Nehru and I were estranged.

The women of Nehru – Gandhi family like Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi wear the special blouse for the campaign trail which is longer than usually and is tucked in to prevent any midriff show while waving to the crowds. Stylist Prasad Bidapa has to say, “ I think Sonia Gandhi is the country's most stylish politician.

If he could be convinced, Nehru would be able to persuade Gandhi to talk to the Viceroy Lord Irwin and reach an agreement with the British Government in the forthcoming Gandhi-Irwin Pact.

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.

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

Adhering to his stated position, Nehru believed that China did not have a legitimate claim over either of these territories, and thus was not ready to concede them.

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.

The British and the Indian Press vehemently criticized these two different schemes and created a confusion about the authorship of the word " Pakistan " to such an extent that even Jawahur Lal Nehru had to write:

During these years, Menon became a passionate proponent of India's freedom, working as a journalist and as secretary of the India League from 1929 to 1947, and a close friend of fellow Indian nationalist leader and future Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as such political and intellectual figures as Bertrand Russell, J. B. S.

Premier Zhou Enlai of the People's Republic of China proposed the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in 1953 during negotiations with India over Tibet and these were written into the Agreement Between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of India on Trade and Intercourse Between the Tibet Region of China and India signed in 1954 by Zhou and Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.

In recognition of these contributions, Kedarnath Agarwal was awarded the Soviet Land Nehru Prize in 1973.

In 1954 Nehru signed with China the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, known in India as the Panchsheel ( from the Sanskrit words, panch: five, sheel: virtues ), a set of principles to govern relations between the two states.

The principles were emphasized by the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, in a broadcast speech made at the time of the Asian Prime Ministers Conference at Colombo just a few days after the signing of the Sino-Indian treaty in Beijing.

December 13, 1946: ' Objective Resolution ' was introduced by Jawaharlal Nehru. Underlying principles of Constitution were laid by Objective Resolution.

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

At the same time, Nehru had supported the people of Spain who were fighting to defend themselves against Franco.

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 ).

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 declared that the only two parties that mattered in India were the British Raj and Congress.

In October 1940, Gandhi and Nehru, abandoning their original stand of supporting Britain, decided to launch a limited civil disobedience campaign in which leading advocates of Indian independence were selected to participate one by one.

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.

Between 1947 and about 1950, the territories of the princely states were politically integrated into the Indian Union under Nehru and Sardar Patel.

Under American advice ( by American envoy John Kenneth Galbraith who made and ran American policy on the war as all other top policy makers in USA were absorbed in coincident Cuban Missile Crisis ) Nehru refrained, not according to the best choices available, from using the Indian air force to beat back the Chinese advances.

But his accession papers were returned by Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India.

They also allege that Zhou purposefully told Nehru that there were no border issues with India.

India's stance that China withdraw from Aksai Chin caused continual deterioration of the diplomatic situation to the point that internal forces were pressuring Nehru to take a military stance against China.

Although pleas for commutation were made by India's prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and by Gandhi's two sons on the grounds that a death sentence would dishonour the legacy of a man opposed to all forms of violence, Godse was hanged a week later.

Among those calling for commutation of the death sentence for the defendants were Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as Gandhi's two sons, who felt that executing their father's killers would dishonour his memory and legacy which included a staunch opposition to the death penalty.

These statements of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir as well as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru also have a bearing on the territorial extent of Kanjut as well as the rest of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir at the time of her accession “ in its entirety to the new Dominion of India ” on October 26 and Section ( 4 ) of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir which pertains to the territorial extent of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir also unequivocally states that, “ The territory of the State shall comprise all the territories which on the fifteenth day of August, 1947, were under the sovereignty or suzerainty of the Ruler of the State ".

He was cremated with full state honors at sunset the following day ; the last rites were performed by his nephew Dr. P. V. Ramachandran, at Ekta sthal on the banks of the River Yamuna ( adjacent to Shanti van, the memorial of his mentor Jawaharlal Nehru ).

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.