Jawaharlal Nehru
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 Jawaharlal Nehru facts

• 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 1964
• He is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic
• He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community while many Indian children knew him as "Uncle Nehru" (Chacha Nehru)
• The son of Motilal Nehru, a prominent lawyer and nationalist statesman and Swaroop Rani, 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, he 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
• As Congress President in 1929, Nehru called for complete independence from the British Raj and instigated the Congress's decisive shift towards the left
• Nehru and the Congress dominated Indian politics during the 1930s as the country moved towards independence
• His idea of a secular nation-state was seemingly validated when the Congress, under his leadership, swept the 1937 provincial elections and formed the government in several provinces; on the other hand, the separatist Muslim League fared much poorer