Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru was born to Motilal Nehru  (1861-1931) and Swaroop Rani (1863-1954) in a family of Kashmiri Pandit in Allahabad, in Uttar Pradesh. He was educated in India and Britain. In England, attended the school the child independent, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. During his stay in Britain, Nehru was also known as Joe Nehru.
On February 7, 1916, Nehru married sixteen Kamala Kaul. In the first year of marriage, Kamala gave birth to her only child, Indira Priyadarshini. Many modern speculation has revolved around whether, during the last days of the British in India, Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten, wife of Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, were romantically involved.

Life and career
Nehru raised the flag of independent India in New Delhi on August 15, 1947, India gained independence days. Nehru's appreciation of the virtues of parliamentary democracy, secularism and liberalism, with its concern for the poor and disadvantaged, it is recognized that have guided the development of socialist policies that influence India to this day. They also reflect the social origins of their worldview. His daughter, Indira Gandhi, and grandson, Rajiv Gandhi, also served as prime ministers of India.

Gandhi's successor
On January 15, 1941 Gandhi said: "Some say that Pandit Nehru and I were separated. It will require much more than differences of opinion that we alienate. We had differences with the time we became colleagues and yet I have said for few years and so now they say no, but Jawaharlal will be my successor Rajaji ".

 political learning
Teen Murti Bhavan, the residence of Nehru as prime minister, now a museum in his memory.Nehru and his colleagues had been released as the British Cabinet Mission arrived to propose plans for transfer of power.
Once elected, Nehru headed an interim government, which was affected by outbreaks of communal violence and political turmoil, and the opposition of the Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who demanded a separate Muslim state in Pakistan. After the offers do not form coalitions, Nehru reluctantly supported the partition of India, according to a plan launched by the British on June 3, 1947. He took over as Prime Minister of India on August 15 and delivered his inaugural lecture entitled "A Date With Destiny"

"Many years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now comes the time to redeem our commitment, not in its entirety or in its entirety, but very substantially. In the race of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. There comes a time, which comes but rarely in history, when we leave the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, repressed for a long time, is expressed. It is fitting that at this solemn moment to assume the commitment of dedicated service to India and her people and cause even greater humanity.