with a great celebrity. It is celebrated on the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehruji who loved and was loved by children. He was called as "Chacha ji" by children However‚ while 20th November is universally celebrated as Children’s Day‚ in India this day has been preponed to 14th November‚ the date the marks the birth anniversary of independent India’s first Prime Minister – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Children’s Day is an event celebrated on various days in many places around the world. International Children’s
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Jawaharlal Nehru (Hindustani: [ˈdʒəʋaːɦərˈlaːl ˈneːɦru] ( listen); 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) 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.[5] Nehru is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state; a
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Dear Children‚ I like being with children and talking to them and‚ even more‚ playing with them. For the moment I forget that I am terribly old and it is very long ago since I was a child. But when I sit down to write‚ I cannot forget my age and the distance that separates you from me. Old people have a habit of delivering sermons and good advice to the young. I remember that I disliked this very much long ago when I was a boy. So I suppose you do not like it very much either. Grown-ups
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Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Allahabad in British India. His father‚ Motilal Nehru (1861–1931)‚ a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community‚[5] served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle. His mother‚ Swaruprani Thussu (1868–1938)‚ who came from a well–known Kashmiri Brahmin family settled in Lahore‚[6] was Motilal’s second wife‚ the first having died in child birth. Jawaharlal was the eldest
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first prime Minister of India‚ Jawaharlal Nehru. Also known as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru‚ he was one of the foremost leaders of Indian freedom struggle. The Father of the Nation‚ Mahatma Gandhi had realised the infinite potential of his favourite disciple at an early age. Jawaharlal Nehru literally shaped the destiny of free India. No wonder‚ he is also called as the architect of modern India. Let’s have a look at Jawaharlal Nehru biography. Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14‚ 1889. Pandit Ji
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h Jawaharlal Nehru If the first half of the 20th century in the history of India belonged to Mahatma Gandhi‚ the other half belonged to Jawaharlal Nehru‚ though he ruled over the newly independent India as its elected prime minister only for about 20 years from 1947 through 1964. It was on the democratic and secular pedestal that Nehru and his team built up‚ that India worked on to prove that it is a strong and prosperous presence among the comity of nations. Professor Percival Spear‚ famous
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The "Nehru Report" (August 1928) was a memorandum outlining a proposed new Dominion constitution for India. It was prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference chaired by Motilal Nehru. There were nine other members in this committee‚ including two Muslims. However‚ the final report was signed by only the following persons: Motilal Nehru‚ Ali Imam‚ Tej Bahadur Sapru‚ M.-S. Aney‚ Mangal Singh‚ Shuaib Qureshi‚ Subhas Chandra Bose‚ and G. R. Pradhan‚ with Shuaaib Qureshi disagreeing with some
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in the town of Porbander in the state of what is now Gujarat on 2 October 1869. He had his schooling in nearby Rajkot‚ where his father served as the adviser or prime minister to the local ruler. Though India was then under British rule‚ over 500 kingdoms‚ principalities‚ and states were allowed autonomy in domestic and internal affairs: these were the so-called ’native states’. Rajkot was one such state. His father died before Gandhi could finish his schooling
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Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru who were instrumental in laying the base of a modern Indian state and giving shape to ideas in the realm of education‚ culture and democracy.1 Gandhi founded the Satyagraha Ashram after returning from South Africa and successfully employed the principles of Satyagraha in uniting the peasants of Kheda and Champaran against the government. After this victory Gandhi was bestowed the title of Bapu and Mahatma and his fame spread far and wide. Jawaharlal Nehru was not only the first
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Jawaharlal Nehru (Hindi/Kashmiri: जवाहरलाल नेहरू‚ pronounced [dʒəʋaːɦərˈlaːl ˈneːɦruː]; 14 November 1889–27 May 1964[4]) was an Indian statesman who was the first (and to date the longest-serving) prime minister of India‚ from 1947 until 1964. One of the leading figures in the Indian independence movement‚ Nehru was elected by the Congress Party to assume office as independent India’s first Prime Minister‚ and re-elected when the Congress Party won India’s first general election in 1952. As one of
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