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54 unusual facts about Jawaharlal Nehru


Achsah Barlow Brewster

They are best known today for their close friendship with such prominent figures of the time as D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather and the Nehru family.

Aksai Chin

On July 1, 1954 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a memo directing that the maps of India be revised to show definite boundaries on all frontiers.

Alan Birkinshaw

In 1986, Birkinshaw went to India where he directed an award winning film on the life of Jawaharlal Nehru, entitled But I Have Promises To Keep, which had been commissioned by Rajiv Gandhi and was made for the Government of India via Doordarshan, the national television network of India.

Armin D. Lehmann

In the cause of peace, Lehmann traveled to more than 150 countries, speaking out for non-violence, tolerance, and understanding with such other voices as Nehru and Schweitzer to all who would listen.

Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo

The song was famously performed live on January 27, 1963 by Lata Mangeshkar at the National Stadium in the presence of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on account of Republic Day (26 January) 1963, just two months after the end of the war.

Bishop Nehru

He chose the his stage name from a combination of Tupac's character in the movie Juice, noting that the character of Bishop inspires him "to go out and get mine, you've got to earn respect" and Nehru is taken from the former prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, who worked closely with legendary peacemaker Gandhi.

Carl Marzani

In the summer of 1938 Marzani and his second wife traveled around the world, visiting India, Indochina, China, Japan, and Europe, using Communist Party contacts to meet Jawaharlal Nehru and others.

Chester Bowles

He enjoyed good relations with India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and he believed that the United States and India shared fundamental democratic values.

Coco Islands

In 2003, Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes told the BBC that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had ‘donated’ the Coco Islands to Burma in the 1950s, and thus surrendered a vital strategic asset.

Colonel C. W. Bowles

Colonel Bowles was in charge of constructing its workshops, houses, schools, churches, hospitals, armory, recreational facilities and a gaol, which once held two very important Indian political prisoners, Subhas Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru.

Commemorative coins of India

The first commemorative coins was dated 1964 and had a bust of Jawaharlal Nehru on observe and was

Community development

With Indian independence, despite the continuing work of Vinoba Bhave in encouraging grassroots land reform, India under its first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru adopted a mixed-economy approach, mixing elements of socialism and capitalism.During the fifties and sixties, India ran a massive community development programme with focus on rural development activities through government support.

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Prime Minister Nehru of India voiced the heightened international concern in 1954, when he proposed the elimination of all nuclear test explosions worldwide.

Delhi Tamil Education Association Senior Secondary Schools

1960: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of the Lakshmi Bai Nagar School.

Donald Callander

As well as training for jungle warfare against the Japanese he was in-charge of the Company guarding Nehru at Ahmednagar Fort.

East Indian Railway Company

On 14 April 1952, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India inaugurated two new zones of the first six zones of the Indian Railways.

Feldman–Mahalanobis model

The model was created as an analytical framework for India’s Second Five Year Plan in 1955 by appointment of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as India felt there was a need to introduce a formal plan model after the First Five Year Plan (1951–1956).

Gheorghe Apostol

According to Apostol himself, an ailing Gheorghiu-Dej would have decided to appoint him as his successor in 1964: as confirmation, Apostol was sent to represent the Romanian government at Jawaharlal Nehru's funeral.

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

Its first published book was the autobiography of the first Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

Givi Javakhishvili

He also hosted high profile foreign guests in Tbilisi, such as Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Queen of Denmark Margrethe II, French President Georges Pompidou, Shah of Iran Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Cuban leader Fidel Castro and many other prominent figures of the 20th Century.

Gouthu Latchanna

Finally when Jawaharlal Nehru agreed to rehabilitate toddy tappers with their conventional tapping on co-operative basis and written agreement offer to oppose Congress in Visakhapatnam district, merger of Krishikar Lok Party in Congress to create "United Congress Front" had materialised.

History of South India

In 1953, the Jawaharlal Nehru government yielded to intense pressure from the northern Telugu-speaking districts of Madras State, and allowed them to vote to create India's first linguistic state.

HMT Limited

The first batch of Hand Wound Wrist Watches manufactured at this factory was released by then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.

J.K Institute of Applied Physics and Technology

Its foundation stone was laid by Late Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, on April 14, 1949 and it was formally inaugurated by him on April 4, 1956.

Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship

Jawaharlal Nehru fellowship is a fellowship given by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund to scholars, who are Indian citizens and carry-on research with in India.

Kaal Sarp

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (First Prime Minister of India) struggled till 54th year.

Kirpal Singh

On this occasion he received the congratulations of the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and established a spiritual tie with him, that continued with the Prime Ministers Shastri and Indira Gandhi.

Lala Ram Prakash Gupta

A lifelong member of the Indian National Congress, he was a dedicated follower of Mahatma Gandhi (popularly known as Gandhiji), Jawaharlal Nehru, and Vinoba Bhave.

Leopoldo Borda Roldan

Borda arrived in New Delhi on 22 June of the same year; on 27 June he met with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in an official ceremony, and the next month on 7 July Borda presented his letter of credence to President Rajendra Prasad at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kolkata

After the independence of India in 1947 the Harrison Road in Kolkata was renamed Mahatma Gandhi Road (M.G. Road) and the name of the upper part of Chowringhee was changed to Jawaharlal Nehru road.

Mahendra Sukhdeo

He met Nehru in Bombay in May, 1963 when he was casually engaged as an information aide for the Government of India pavilion, showcasing the lavish `Our Himalayas` exhibition.

Mandarin collar

(Named for Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India 1947–1964, who commonly wore clothing with this type of collar.)

Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal

Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal was a member of Jawaharlal Nehru's family and an Indian writer.

Margaret Cousins

She received financial support from the Madras government, and later Jawaharlal Nehru, in recognition of her services to India.

Marguerite Higgins

Higgins continued to cover foreign affairs throughout the rest of her life, interviewing world leaders such as Francisco Franco, Nikita Khrushchev, and Jawaharlal Nehru.

Modern Hindu law

Following independence, the postcolonial government led by Jawaharlal Nehru completed the codification and reform of Hindu personal law, a process that had been begun by the British.

India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, worked to unify the newly independent India by proposing the reformation and codification of Hindu personal law.

Philip Donnellan

He also filmed public figures such as Konrad Adenauer, Jawaharlal Nehru and Charles de Gaulle; these were well received but he found them less satisfying.

Raj Ghat and associated memorials

Jawaharlal Nehru's samadhi is to the north of the Raj Ghat and is known as the Shantivan or Shanti Vana meaning the forest of peace.

Saul K. Padover

Padover also authored Nehru on World History, published in 1960, condensed from Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru.

Saurabh Dubey

Saurabh Dubey is an Indian film and television character actor who is best known for his television roles of Jawaharlal Nehru in Pradhanmantri (TV Series),Apaharan,Kairi — Rishta Khatta Meetha.

Sidney Dillon Ripley

In 1947, Ripley entered Nepal pretending to be a close confidante of Jawaharlal Nehru and the Nepal government, eager to maintain diplomatic ties with its newly independent neighbour, allowed him to collect bird specimens.

Sonam Topgay Dorji

On April 23, 1948, Topgay Dorji headed the Bhutanese delegation to recently independent India, meeting Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Sri Visalakshi Kalasala Higher Secondary School

The New School Building was opened on 15 April 1959 by the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

Taya Zinkin

She was an indirect cause of the 1962 Border War between India and China for she discovered the Chinese building a road in Aksai Chin and she related it privately to Jawaharlal Nehru.

Terence MacSwiney

Jawaharlal Nehru took inspiration from MacSwiney's example and writings, and Mahatma Gandhi counted him among his influences.

The Greenbrier

In recent history, the resort has hosted several presidents and vice-presidents, foreign dignitaries such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco.

University of Cambridge Chancellor election, 1950

There was a contested election as the University establishment's candidate, Lord Tedder, was opposed by a group of Dons who favoured Jawaharlal Nehru.

Vacys Reimeris

For a collection of poems Prie baltojo Tadž (By the White Taj, 1962) about India he was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Prize (1968).

Vijay Singh Pathik

It was Pathikji who fought for the cause of united Rajasthan and had taken up the issue with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel.

W. K. C. Guthrie

Returning to Cambridge after the war Guthrie was much in demand in his capacity as Orator, called upon to deliver Latin encomia in honour of such dignitaries as Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Jan Smuts, Nehru, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Viscount Slim and General Montgomery.

Willemina Ogterop

The "Nehru Window" - honoring India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - and delivered to him in 1946 by his sister, Mrs. Pandit, has never been located.

Y. D. Gundevia

Yezdezard Dinshaw Gundevia (1908-1986) was an Indian ICS officer, diplomat and Foreign Secretary under Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Zhang Guohua

There, he endorsed the summary by Zhou Enlai that because India chose to occupy disputed territory with China, instead of peacefully resolving the border demarcation with it like Nepal, Burma, and Mongolia, that "Nehru has closed all roads. This leaves us only with war."


All India States Peoples Conference

Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become the first Prime Minister of India in 1947, was invited to become the President of the All-India body in 1935, and remained so until 1946.

Bal Patil

Bal Patil drew many pen and ink sketches of noted personalities such as George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Socrates, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Lata Mangeshkar, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Kamaraj among others.

Herbert Murrill

He was also responsible for the official, martial orchestral version of the Indian national anthem, approved by Jawaharlal Nehru before independence in 1947.

Imperial Ambitions

He agrees with Jawaharlal Nehru's analysis that Imperialism is inherently racist but points out that it is necessary for Imperialists to give their mission a moral basis and as John Stuart Mill did this for the British Empire so now Michael Ignatieff and other intellectuals are doing it for the American Empire but the populace should ignore these apologists and speak the truth.

Jawahar Vidya Bhawan

It is affiliated to Maharashtra SSC Board, The school is named after Jawaharlal Nehru.

Kodendera Subayya Thimayya

He established the best of relations with Sheikh Abdullah and Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad and even Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, but his pleas to give him three more months to drive the raiders back to Muzzarfarabad fell on deaf ears and instead, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru went to the United Nations.

Linganna Pujari

His greatest political achievement was in 1946 when Pujari, as an independent candidate for the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) by-elections with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's blessings and support, defeated Congressman Raja Gunottam Hutheesing, husband of Krishna Hutheesing and brother-in-law of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India.

Mahavir Tyagi

Mahavir Tyagi was close to, and had been a jail companion of, the leading Indian nationalist, Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru's father.

Rajyasevapraveena G. Parameswaran Pillai

He also served on educational committees set up by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, working in close association with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Dr. Zakir Husain, Rao Bahadur Krishnamachari, Honourable Rajkumari Amrit Kaur et al.

The Sound of Fishsteps

At the retreat she encounters a man claiming to be the French novelist Romain Gary, with whom she falls in love, and the descendents of other iconoclastic geniuses including Joan of Arc, Anaïs Nin, Jawaharlal Nehru and Edvard Grieg.

Third-Worldism

Key figures in the Third Worldist movement include Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Frantz Fanon, Walter Rodney, Ahmed Ben Bella, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Muammar Gaddafi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ali Shariati, Andre Gunder Frank, Samir Amin and Simon Malley.