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Jawaharlal Nehru Biography.

Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allabahad on November 14, 1889.

He received his early education at home under private tutors. At the age of fifteen, he went to England and after two years at Harrow, joined Cambridge University where he took his tripos in Natural Sciences.

He was later called to the Bar from Inner Temple. He returned to India in 1912 and plunged straight into politics.

Even as a student, he had been interested in the struggle of all nations who suffered under foreign domination.

He took keen interest in the Sinn Fein Movement in Ireland.

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He completed his ‘Autobiography’ in Almora Jail on February 14, 1935. After release, he flew to Switzerland to see his ailing wife and visited London in February-March, 1936.

He also visited Spain in July 1938, when the country was in the throws of Civil War. Just before the court-break o...

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In India, he was inevitably drawn into the struggle for independence.

In 1912, he attended the Bankipore Congress as a delegate, and became Secretary of the Home Rule League, Allahabad in 1919.

In 1916 he had his first meeting with Mahatma Gandhi and felt immensely inspired by him. H...

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and was one of the signatories to the Nehru Report on Indian Constitutional Reform, named after his father Shri Motilal Nehru.

The same year, he also founded the ‘Independence for India League’, which advocated complete severance of the British connection with India, and became its Genera...

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On August 7, 1942 Pt. Nehru moved the historic ‘Quit India’ resolution at the A.I.C.C. session in Bombay.

On August 8,1942 he was arrested along with other leaders and taken to Ahmednagar Fort. This was his longest and also his last detention.

In all, he suffered imprisonment nine t...

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He toured Italy, Switzerland, England, Belgium, Germany and Russia in 1926.

In Belgium, he attended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities in Brussels as an official delegate of the Indian National Congress.

He also attended the tenth anniversary celebrations of the October Sociali...

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