2. INTRODUCTION
• Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru-one of the foremost
leaders of Indian freedom struggle
• Favorite disciple of Mahatma Gandhi
• Went on to become the first Prime Minister of
India
• Widely regarded as the architect of modern
India
• Very fond of children and children used to
affectionately call him Chacha Nehru
3. ABOUT HIS LIFE
• Born on November 14, 1889
• Father Motilal Nehru was a famous Allahabad
based barrister and Mother's Swaroop Rani
• Only son of Motilal Nehru and had three sisters
• Nehrus were Saraswat Brahmin of Kashmiri lineage
• Received education in some of the finest schools
and universities of the world
• Schooling from Harrow and completed his Law
degree from Trinity College, Cambridge
4. • Jawaharlal was a true patriot
• While a student in England, kept in touch with the
political events in India
• With degree of law came back to India in 1912 and
joined the bar at the Allahabad High court
• Married Kamala Nehru in 1916
• Met top Indian leaders like G.K. Gokhale, Dr. Annie
Bessant, C.R.Das and M.K.Gandhi
• He met M.K.Gandhi at the Congress Session in
Lucknow
5. • His real initiation into politics was when he met Gandhi
in 1919
• Nehru attracted to Gandhi's commitment for active but
peaceful, civil disobedience
• Nehru family changed its family according to Mahatma
Gandhi's teachings
• Jawaharlal Nehru took active part in the Non-
Cooperation Movement 1920-1922 and was arrested for
the first time
• The more he suffered the more he loved his country
6. • Was a true diplomat
• Started the Non-Alignment Movement
• Strong supporter of industrialization
• Wanted to change fate of India by setting up more and more
factories
• He never wanted his countrymen to remain in the grip of
illiteracy, ignorance and superstition
• He wanted the spread of science in India
• Lover of Indian Culture.
• Jawaharlal Nehru died in the afternoon of 27 May 1964, at the
age of 74, of a heart attack
7. • He was a great writer and a thinker
• Wrote famous books as
>Autobiography
>Discovery of India
>Glimpses of World History
• Great speaker and delivered speech at many places
in India and abroad
• He advocated India's stand on non-violence, love and
universal brotherhood
8. ACHIEVEMENTS
• Took active part in Non-Cooperation Movement
• Elected President of the Allahabad Municipal Corporation
• Served for two years as the city's chief executive
• Presided over Congress' annual session in Lahore and
passed a resolution demanding India's independence
• Elected as Congress President in 1936, 1937, and 1946
• First Prime Minister of independent India
• General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee
• Awarded Bharat Ratna in 1955
9. CHALLENGES FACED
• The disorders and mass exodus of minorities across the
new border with Pakistan
• The integration of 500-odd princely states into the Indian
Union
• The framing of a new constitution
• The establishment of the political and administrative
infrastructure for a parliamentary democracy
10. AS THE PRIME MINISTER
• Played a key role in building modern India.
• He set up a Planning Commission, encouraged development of
science and technology
• Launched three successive five-year plans
• His policies led to growth in agricultural & industrial
production
• Played a major role in developing independent India's foreign
policy
• Called for liquidation of colonialism in Asia and Africa, was
one of the chief architects of the non-aligned movement
11. • Played constructive role in bringing the Korean War to an end
and in resolving other international crises
• Contributed toward the solution of several explosive issues
• Couldn't improve India's relations with Pakistan and China.
• Chinese invasion in 1962, which Nehru failed to anticipate,
came as a great blow to him
• Jawaharlal Nehru died of a heart attack on May 27, 1964
• Remained Prime Minister of India for 17 long years
12. • Set India on path of democracy & nurtured its institution -
Parliament, multi-party system, independent judiciary and free
press
• He encouraged Panchayati Raj institutions
• Nehru rejected religion.
• He observed the effects of superstition on the lives of the Indian
people
• Nehru thought that religion was at the root of the stagnation and
lack of progress in India
13. • Nehru observed- attitudes and religious taboos were
preventing India from going forward & adapting modern
conditions
• Concerned that many Indian people could not read or write
and wanted mass education to release Indian society from
the limitations that ignorance and religious traditions
imposed
14. LEADERSHIP QUALITIES OF
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
• Cheerful
• Indulgent
• Always well dressed
• Cunning
• Lusty
• Extremely compromising
• Opportunistic
• Inspire others
• Good communicator
• Commitment and passion
