On 27th May 2021 India has celebrated 57th death anniversary of India’s first and longest serving Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. During this occasion, India people remembered him about his vast contribtion towards India.
Jawharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889 in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj and he died on 27th May 1964.
Till Nehru turned 15 he was studying from home from where he received most of his primary education before he went to study overseas and returned to India in 1912.
Jawaharlal Nehru was a renowned leader of India who fought for the freedom along with Mahatma Gandhi from 1916 to 1947 for more than 30 years against the British occupation in India. He has started service jail sentence at the age of 23 and he was in the Jail in different times approximately for a period of nine years From 1921 to 1945.
As he actively participated India’s freedom struggle about 3 decades, he was selected for the prime minister of India on 15th August 1947. He served as a Prime Minister of India for a period of 17 years . During this period he played crucial role in making India as a sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic country. He also implemented multi party and secular democratic system in India.
Jawaharlal Nehru became Prime Minister of India when India was suffering from lack of money and infrastructural facilities. Those days only 8% people were literate and the life expectancy of the people were approximately 31 years. It means the people were dying before attaining any skills to contribute for the country’s economy.
Pandit Nehru was a renowned writer and he has written so many books, His letters and articles were widely famous among the Indian and world communities across the world. His hundreds of letters written to his daughter Indira Gandhi was later compiled and the same has become a famous book called Glimpses of World History.
Please find below names of 10 books written by Jawharlal Nehru:-
Glimpses Of World History
The Discovery Of India
Letters From A Father To His Daughter
An Autobiography: Toward Freedom
Letters For A Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru To His Chief Ministers 1947-1963
A Bunch Of Old Letters
Nehru’s India: Select Speeches
Before Freedom
The Essential Writings Of Jawaharlal Nehru
Words Of Freedom: Ideas Of A Nation
He was an icon, intellectual, energetic, charismatic, visionary, kind, generous, honest, sincere, cooperative, passionate etc. He has effectively laid foundations for the famous educational institutions such as Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) as well as Indian Institutes of Management(IIMs). He also laid foundation for India’s space exploration program.
Ever since he became Prime Minister of India, he was keeping equal distance with both the superpowers such as United States of America and then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). He was one of the founder members for establishing non aligned movement (NAM).
Because of Nehru, India became the leader of third world which was consisting of 120 countries. Since then he managed to get wide range support from Asian and African countries and he was actively working along with Indonesian President Sukarno and Egyptian President Abdul Nasser for self sufficiency, world peace and prosperity.
He was taking care of the entire people irrespective of their religion, caste and language. He was a modern and universal thinker and firmly established a secular, democratic, non-aligned India.
He had immense respect from all over the world and they were treating him as a world leader and a great orator. He was totally against of Racism, Imperialism, & strongly advocated for Asian & Afro-Asian Unity,
As his birth day was on 14th November 1889, every year on this day India has been celebrating Children’s day to
As Pundit Nehru was always advocating the children to fulfill their education. To increase the awareness of the Children’s education, care and their rights, children’s day is celebrating every year on his birthday (14th November) as a tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru who has been fondly called as Chacha Nehru.
He was a most committed world leader who was totally against dictatorship, exploitation and discrimination. He advocated for a new world order based on peace and co-existence.
Pundit Nehru was the main instrumental in forming the Planning Commission in India. He formulated 5 years plan for establishing economic and industrial base of the country.
He laid foundation for the massive industrialisation in the country. He tried his level best to improve the bilateral relationship between India and U.S.S.R.
He became Prime Minister of India when India was passing through a turbulent times. He kept his sanity at all times and created India as a secular and a broad democratic country.
