Jawaharlal Nehru

1. Jawaharlal Nehru
(14 November 1889 –
27 May 1964

2. Jawaharlal Nehru
• was an Indian independence activist.
• the first Prime Minister of India
• He was also known as Pandit Nehru (due to
his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit
community.)
• Indian children knew him as Chacha
Nehru (Hindi, lit., "Uncle Nehru")
• He has been described by the Amar Chitra
Katha as the architect of India.

6. Writings
• Nehru was a prolific writer in English
and wrote a number of books:
• The Discovery of India,
• Glimpses of World History, and
• his autobiography, Toward Freedom.

7. • He had written 30 letters to his
daughter Indira Gandhi, when
she was 10 years old and in a
boarding school in Mussoorie,
teaching about natural history
and the story of civilisations.
The collection of these letters
was later published as a
book Letters from a Father to
His Daughter.

8. • The Discovery of India was
written by India's first Prime
Minister Pt. Jawaharlal
Nehru during his
imprisonment in 1942–46
at Ahmednagar
fort in Maharashtra, India by
British during the British Raj
before independence of
India.

9. • The book provides a broad view of
Indian history, philosophy and culture.
• begins from ancient history, leading up to
the last years of the British Raj.

11. Mahatma Gandhi inspired
people all over the world
• The word Mahatma is taken from
the Sanskrit words maha (Great) and
atma (Soul).
• Rabindranath Tagore is said to have
accorded the title Mahatma to
Gandhiji.
• He influenced important leaders and
political movements.

12. Martin Luther King Jr.
• One of the United States’ most famous
civil rights leaders, Martin Luther King
Jr. :
• “Gandhi was probably the first person in
history to lift the love ethic of Jesus
above mere interaction between
individuals to a powerful and effective
social force on a large scale.

13. “On the occasion of
Mahatma Gandhi's 70th
birthday.
"Generations to come,
it may well be, will
scarce believe that such
a man as this one ever in
flesh and blood walked
upon this Earth.”
― Albert Einstein

14. Pearl S. Buck
• "He was right; he knew he was right, we
all knew he was right. The man who
killed him knew he was right. However
long the follies of the violent continue,
they but prove that Gandhi was right.
'Resist to the very end', he said, 'but
without violence'. Of violence the world
is sick. Oh, India, dare to be worthy of
your Gandhi“.