Nehru Born: Architect of Independent India
Jawaharlal Nehru spent nine years in British prisons across his career, reading voraciously between arrests. He wrote The Discovery of India in one of those prisons in 1944, a 550-page history of the subcontinent. He was India's first prime minister from independence in 1947 until his death in 1964 — 17 years. He built the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Planning Commission, and established the principle of non-alignment that kept India out of Cold War alliances.
November 14, 1889
137 years ago
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