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The Life and Accomplishments of Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru is a name that every Indian is informed of. Jawaharlal was absolutely prominent among children. Expected to which the children named him ‘Chacha Nehru’. Since he adored children so much the government commemorated his birthday as ‘Children’s Day. Jawaharlal Nehru was a tremendous forerunner. He was an individual with an incredible love for his country.

Jawaharlal Nehru’s Origin

Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14th November 1889 in Allahabad (which is now Prayagraj). His father’s name was Motilal Nehru who was a decent lawyer. His father was awfully rich because of which Nehru got satisfactory education. At a young age, he was taken abroad for school. He studied in two universities of England which are Harrow and Cambridge. He obtained his degree in the year 1910. Since Nehru was a normal man in his studies he was not much enthusiastic about the law. He had an attraction to politics. Although he later became a lawyer and practiced law in Allahabad High Court. At the age of 24, he got married to Smt. Kamla Devi. They had a daughter who was called Indira.

Jawaharlal Nehru as a Chief -in-Comnad

Most importantly, Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India. He was a man of tremendous intuition. He was a leader, emissary, and author too. He always wanted India to come to be a prosperous country, he always labored day and night for the development of the country. Jawaharlal Nehru was a man of incredible wisdom. Most grandly, he gave the motto ‘Araam Haram Hai’.

Jawaharlal Nehru was a man of unity but he saw how the British treated Indians. Due to which he decided to enlist in the freedom campaign. He had an affection for his country because of which he made a pact with Mahatma Gandhi (Bapu). As an outcome, he entered the Non-Cooperation campaign of Mahatma Gandhi. In his freedom fight, he had to face numerous challenges. He even went to prison several times. Nevertheless, his devotion to his country did not deteriorate. He fought an extraordinary fight that resulted in Independence. India got its Independence on 15th August 1947. Because of Jawaharlal Nehru’s influence, he was appointed as the first prime minister of India.

Accomplishments as a Prime Minister

Nehru was a man of contemporary reasoning. He constantly yearned to make India a more developed and sophisticated country. There was a disparity between the reasoning of Gandhi and Nehru. Gandhi and Nehru had distinct beliefs toward civilization. While Gandhi preferred an ancient India, Nehru was of a developed India. He constantly wanted India to go in a progressive direction. Despite the cultural and religious disparities in India. Regardless, there was a burden of religious independence in the country. At that time the central objective was to unify the country. With all the tensions Jawaharlal Nehru directed the country in scientific and contemporary efforts. Most grandly, Jawaharlal Nehru had an enormous accomplishment. He improved ancient Hindu culture. It enabled the Hindu widows greatly. The modification had bestowed on women equal rights to men. The right to heritage and wealth.

Besides that Nehru was a great prime minister, an issue that worried him a lot. The Kashmir province was contended by both India and Pakistan. He strived to resolve the conflict numerous times but the problem was quite pungent.

He was an extraordinary patriot and nationalist but he never lost a sense of internationalism and global unity. He fostered the "Panch Sheel” for global unity and conformity and made India a significant country amongst the evolving countries in the world.

His affection for children was endless. He loved to converse and play with them. He considered them the actual fortune and bright future of India. He glimpsed into their innocent and glowing eyes and felt confident about the country’s future. Children’s Day is observed on 14th November every year because it was his birthday, and the children happily named him "Chacha Nehru”. This bond of affection, love, and compassion was profound and enduring. In a term of the Indian National Congress, he said, filled with prominent beliefs and patriotic emotions, "I have hardly any ambition left, but there is one ambition left in me. I should throw myself with all the strength and energy left in me into the work of building up India. I want to give it my utmost, till I am exhausted and thrown away on the scrap heap. It is enough for me that I have exhausted my strength and energy in India’s task. I do not care what happens to my reputation after I am gone. But if people choose to think of me then, I should like them to say, "This was the man, who with all his mind and heart loved India and the Indian people. And they, in turn, were indulgent to give hint that their love was most abundantly and extra-vagrantly”.

Nehru was successive to Gandhi in the political ladder and significance. He was very prominent among the people. Additionally, there was a considerable subtlety and mastery in his connection with the party and its myriad of big authorities. (7th ed.) Nehru, Jawaharlal. Jawaharlal Nehru, an Autobiography: With Musings on Recent Events in India. London: John Lane, 1936. Print.

Thoughtful, erudite, catholic, charismatic, and astounding patriot, shortly he becomes Gandhi’s political successor. Sardar Patel was greatly elder to him, but because of these traits, he was selected to be the first Prime Minister of India in 1947. On the event of the first independence day on midnight of 14-15 August in 1947, he said, providing his so popular speech, "Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India awakes to life and freedom, a moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the larger cause of humanity”.

But shortly, the pain of partition and later the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi plummeted the entirety of the country into abysmal grief, sadness, and dejection. And then Nehru declared, "The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere … the father of the nation is no more, the best prayer that we can offer him and his memory is to dedicate ourselves to truth and to the cause tor which this great countryman of our lived and for which he died.” The misfortune trembled the entire country to its very foundations.

Nehru shone like the daylight on the political frontier for about a century. He gained the hearts and minds of the people by his extreme sobriety, devotion, vision, and sense of usefulness to the people. His devotion to the cause of India was intense and resolute. He wasted a reasonable part of his life and youth in prison. But the blatantly obvious betrayal by China in 1962 was too tremendous a shock for him. He never healed from this impact and eventually died on May 27, 1964.

The Chinese had assembled a vast part of Indian Territory around the Aksai Chin region where India and China had a mutual border, and then they raided India’s northwestern boundaries. In the rise of the Chinese invasion, he had a stroke in January of 1964 during the party trial at Bhubaneswar and also in May which was ascertained fatal.

Nehru’s death and ultimate departure left the country bewildered and devastated for a long time. His last words, "I have disposed of all my files” amount up to his whole ideology and sentiment to work and responsibility. His love and affection for Robert Frost’s poetry "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was remarkable because it communicated his own beliefs so accurately. He often kept it jotted down on a piece of paper and under the glass of his work table. It was there that he breathed his last breath. A number of lines of the poem go thus: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.”

Work Cited

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964. Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru. Second Series. New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, 19842017.