Jawaharlal Nehru Signed Photograph As 1st Prime Minister Of India - With Coa For Sale

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Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad, the son of a lawyer whose family was originally from Kashmir. He was educated in England, at Harrow School, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. Nehru studied law at the Inner Temple in London. He returned to India in 1912 and practiced law for some years. In 1916, he married Kamala Kaul and the following year they had a daughter, Indira. In 1919, Nehru joined the Indian National Congress which was fighting for greater autonomy from the British. He was heavily influenced by the organization's leader, Mohandas Gandhi. During the 1920s and 1930s, Nehru was repeatedly imprisoned by the British for civil disobedience. In 1928, he was elected President of the Indian National Congress.

By the end of World War II, Nehru was recognized as Gandhi's successor. He played a central role in the negotiations over Indian independence. He opposed the Muslim League's insistence on the division of India on the basis of religion. Louis Mountbatten, the last British viceroy, advocated the division as the fastest and most workable solution and Nehru reluctantly agreed. On August 15, 1947, Nehru became the first Prime Minister of independent India. He held the post until his death in 1964. Nehru implemented moderate socialist economic reforms and committed India to a policy of industrialization.

Nehru also served as Foreign Minister of India. In October 1947, he faced conflict with Pakistan over the state of Kashmir, which was disputed at independence. Nehru sent troops into the state to support India's claim. A United Nations ceasefire was negotiated, but Kashmir remains deeply unstable to this day. Against the background of the Cold War, Nehru developed a policy of "positive neutrality" for India. He became one of the key spokesmen for the non-aligned countries of Africa and Asia, many of which were former colonies that wanted to avoid dependence on any major power.

Despite efforts at cooperation by both countries, Indian-Chinese border disputes escalated into war in 1962 and Indian forces were decisively beaten. This had a significant impact on Nehru's declining health. He died on May 27, 1964. Two years later Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi (married to journalist/politician Feroze Gandhi from 1942 until his death in 1960), became Prime Minister. With an interruption of only three years, she held the post until her assassination in 1984. Her son Rajiv Gandhi was Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989, but in 1991, he too was assassinated..

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