JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14th November,1889.He was born in Allahabad in British India.He was first prime minister of independent India , who established parliamentary government and became noted for his neutralist (nonaligned) policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the 1930s.

Nehru was born to a family of Kashmiri Brahmins, noted for their administrative aptitude and scholarship, who had migrated to Delhi early in the 18th century. He was a son of Motilal Nehru, a renowned lawyer and leader of the Indian independence movement, who became one of Gandhi’s prominent associates. Jawaharlal was the eldest of four children, two of whom were girls.  Vijaya Lakshmi 1pandit,sister of Jawaharlal Nehru later became the first woman president of the UN general Assembly.