Jawaharlal Nehru was a great leader 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 started serving jail term at the age of 23 years with effect from 1921 to 1945. He was in the jail nearly for nine years for different jail terms.
He was the first Prime Minister of India and had ruled the country with effect from 1947 to 1964 (total 17 years). He was the architect of modern India and it’s broad based democratic system. He promoted multi party system and secular democracy in India.
He became Prime Minister of India when India did not have any adequate infrastructure facilities and money. Those days only 8% people were literate and the life expectancy of the people were approximately 31 years. That means anyone would die before attaining any skills to contribute for the country’s economy.
But the determined and dedicated Pundit Nehru started building India in a systematic manner and he has done commendable job for developing India in a rapid manner.
Pandit Nehru was a renowned writer and he has written so many books and his letters and articles were widely famous among the Indians. . His letters written to his daughter Indira Gandhi was later became 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
Nehruâs India: Select Speeches
Before Freedom
The Essential Writings Of Jawaharlal Nehru
Words Of Freedom: Ideas Of A Nation
He was an iconic, intellectual, energetic, charismatic, visionary, kind, generous, honest, sincere, cooperative, passionate etc. He has effectively laid foundations for the premier educational institutions IITs and space exploration program. He was blessed with immense charm and good looking.
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.) and established non alignment movement.
Because of Nehru, India became leader of third world which consists 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 all the people irrespective of their religion, caste and language. He was a modern and universal thinker and firmly established a secular, democratic, non-aligned India with modern institutions such as IITs and IIMs.
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,
Every year on 14th November India is celebrating Children’s day to increase awareness of the rights, care and education of children. 14th November is a birth day of Pundit Nehru. As Pundit Nehru loves the children too much and he always advocated for children to fulfill their education, children’s day is celebrating every year as a tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru who has been fondly called as Chacha Nehru.
He was one of the most committed world leaders and totally against dictatorship, exploitation and discrimination, and he advocated for a new world order based on peace and co-existence.
Regarding Kashmir issue, Nehru and Sardar Patel was having difference of opinion. Sardar patel was not at all in favour of taking the Kashmir issue to United Nations. Whereas Nehru took the decision to take Kashmir issue to United Nations in the intention of making peace and stability in the world. In spite of having difference of opinion and conflicts, both had immense respect among each other.
Pandit Nehru was the brain child of Planning Commission concept. He laid the foundation for the industrialization and implemented broad based democratic system in the country in an effective manner. He tried his level best to improve the bilateral relationship between India and U.S.S.R.
Nehru was the brain child of Planning Commission & he formulated 5 year Plans for establishing economic and industrial base of the country.
He has taken initiative in setting up Steel plants at Bhilai, Rourkela, Bokaro, Steel Authority of India, BHEL, Bharat Electronics Ltd, Indian Oil Corporation, LIC, ONGC, Oil India Ltd etc. These major companies are the hallmark of Nehruvian era .
During his Prime Ministerial tenure many major dams such as Bhakra Nangal, Nagarjuna Sagar, Hirakud, Koyna were built across India and it has immensely helped in preventing flood, generating electricity and creating green revolution.
Pandit Nehru introduced a culture of acceptance of opposition’s view in India’s political discourse. He created an atmosphere for all the communities to live together with harmony and peace.
Nehru had the vision in investing in cutting edge Science & Technology such as Space Science & Nuclear Technology. To achieve his goal he brought great intellects such as Vikram Sarabhai, Homi Jehangir Bhabha to lead these programs.
In the intention of modernizing India’s education system, he set up institutions such as IITs, IIMs, AIIMS etc,
He played crucial role in determining the balance of power between States & the Union Government to maintain unity of this extremely diverse country.
He implemented Socialist mode of governance with Mixed economy rather than implement capitalist economy.
He has implemented so many acts such as Employee Provident Fund Act, Employee State Insurance Act, Factories Act, Minimum Wages Act, Maternity Benefit Act, Employee Exchange Act etc that were mainly meant for benefiting the common people of the country.
Jawaharlal Nehru did a wonderful job as a Prime Minister of India when India was passing through a turbulent times. He kept his sanity and fought with to make India a secular democracy. He played a major role in the formation of a modern and secular democratic constitution for India.
