Jawaharlal Nehru Politician
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: India
- Born: Nov 14, 1889
- Died: May 27, 1964
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics for much of the 20th century. He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian independence movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in office in 1964. Nehru is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic.
The son of Motilal Nehru, a prominent lawyer and nationalist statesman, Nehru was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and the Inner Temple, where he trained to be a barrister. Upon his return to India, he enrolled at the Allahabad High Court, and took an interest in national politics, which eventually replaced his legal practice. A committed nationalist since his teenage years, Nehru became a rising figure in Indian politics during the upheavals of the 1910s. He became the prominent leader of the left-wing factions of the Indian National Congress during the 1920s, and eventually of the entire Congress, with the tacit approval of his mentor, Gandhi.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
failure
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
change & history
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
attitudes
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
peace
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
time
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
home
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
society
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
change
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
dreams & peace
Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
truth
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
fear