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.

When Narayanan returned to India in 1948, Laski gave him a letter of introduction to Prime minister 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.

When in India after World War II, many prominent personalities came to meet with Krishnamurti, including Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

When in 1929, Motilal Nehru handed over the Congress presidency to Jawaharlal ( Jawaharlal was elected, with Gandhi's backing ), it greatly pleased Motilal and Nehru family admirers to see the son take over from his father.

When President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt visited India, Sivaji Ganesan was the only individual, granted permission by the Indian Prime-minister Jawaharlal Nehru, to host a party for Nasser.

When Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became president of All India Congress Committee, he was elected its general secretary ; in 1957, he was selected for Lok Sabha.

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

When the Congress party under Nehru chose to contest elections and accept power under the Federation scheme, Gandhi resigned from party membership.

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

When the Japanese carried their attack through Burma ( now Myanmar ) to the borders of India in the spring of 1942, the British government, faced by this new military threat, decided to make some overtures to India, as Nehru had originally desired.

When Lord Louis Mountbatten formally proposed the plan on 3 June 1947, Patel gave his approval and lobbied Nehru and other Congress leaders to accept the proposal.

When the motion was put to the vote, the " No-changers " won by 1748 to 890 votes resulting in the resignation of important Congress leaders including Pandit Motilal Nehru and C. R. Das, the President of the Indian National Congress.

When Mahatma Gandhi aborted the struggle in 1922 following the Chauri Chaura Incident, Patel left the Congress to form the Swaraj Party with Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru, which would seek to foil the Raj by sabotaging the government after gaining entry in the councils.

When he was 18, Randy played in a band called The Tabbs, who wore mustard coloured Nehru jackets on stage.

When he began to prepare to enter Goa a third time, he desisted on the advice of Gandhi & Nehru http :// www. maharashtra. gov. in / english / gazetteer / VOL-VIII-PART-I / GOA_FREEDOM_VOL_VIII_PART_I_PAGE_50_100. pdf ).

When Nehru was criticised in the Parliament for his decision to provide more aid to Orissa Nehru replied, '" Biju Patnaik has the courage, dynamism and zeal to work.

When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.

When she was nine years old, she wrote a description of a store she had visited.

When King Saud visited Washington, the overwhelming question consuming the press was the size of his family.

When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

When Charlotte's friend Ellen Nussey visited Haworth in 1833, she reported that Emily and Anne were " like twins ", " inseparable companions ".

When Gianfranco Fini visited Israel in late November 2003 in the function of Italian Deputy Prime Minister, he labeled the racial laws issued by the fascist regime in 1938 as " infamous ", as also Giorgio Almirante, historic leader of MSI, had done before.

When Saint Macarius visited Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony clothed him with the monk's garb, and foretold him what would be of him.

When Bede was about 17 years old, Adomnan, the abbot of Iona Abbey, visited Monkwearmouth and Jarrow.

When Snodgrass and Heller visited Clipperton in 1898, they reported that " no land plant is native to the island ".

When Defoe visited in the mid 1720s, he claimed that the hostility towards his party was, " because they were English and because of the Union, which they were almost universally exclaimed against ".

When Dr Blackwell visited London in 1859, Elizabeth travelled to the capital.

When Orwell was in the sanatorium in Kent his wife's friend Lydia Jackson visited.

When Pausanias visited Thebes in Boeotia, in the second century AD, he was shown Hector's tomb and was told that the bones had been transported to Thebes according to a Delphic oracle.

When Mary Pickford visited Hawks at basic training, his superior officers were so impressed that they promoted him to flight instructor and sent him to Texas to teach new recruits.

When Keller visited Akita Prefecture in Japan in July 1937, she inquired about Hachikō, the famed Akita dog that had died in 1935.

" When James Bruce visited the area in the later 18th century, he noted that the locals counted 45 inhabited islands, but stated he believed that " the number may be about eleven.

When Susan B. Anthony visited Aberdeen, she stayed with the Baums.

When the early humanist Benzo d ' Alessandria visited Verona before 1310, he noted the " Laberinthum which is now called the Arena "; perhaps he was seeing the cubiculi beneath the arena's missing floor.

When Banda visited a city, a contingent of women were expected to greet him at the airport and dance for him.

When Jinnah called for Direct Action, on 16 August 1946, Gandhi was infuriated and visited the most riot prone areas to stop the massacres, personally.

When Maria's eldest sister Alexandra visited Gatchina in July 1894, she was surprised to see how weak her brother-in-law Alexander III had become.

Rowse wrote, ' When Menzies visited us All Souls College, Oxford he told me that he was a Cornish Sampson on his mother's side.

When Morse visited Rome, he refused to take his hat off in the presence of the Pope.

) When representatives of the science ministry visited DS9 in " Destiny ", they were noticeably less nationalistic than most Cardassians seen previously.