Nehru, Jawaharlal

1. An Indian political leader of the twentieth century. Nehru was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for independence from Britain in India during the 1930s and 1940s. After independence, he served as the country's first prime minister , steering Indian foreign policy toward nonalignment ( see nonaligned nations ). Nehru died in 1964.

Example Sentences

And after all, Rahul Gandhi's great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, had those qualities in spades.

From The Daily Beast

And yet if Jawaharlal Nehru "discovered" India, it can reasonably be said that PV Narasimha Rao reinvented it.

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