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Nehru the discovery of india7/2/2023 ![]() “His experience abroad implanted in him a marked capacity for distance and detachment towards his own country,” says Sunil Khilnani, Director of South Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He wrote The Discovery of India during his imprisonment at the Ahmadnagar Fort for five months, from April to September 1944. Jawaharlal Nehru was an avid reader of history and politics. He envisioned an India that was a socialist state, secular, democratic, and modern. After independence and the bloody partition of India, Nehru became India’s first Prime Minister. ![]() He initially belonged to the left wing of the Indian National Congress Party but later became a Congress President under the mentorship of Mahatma Gandhi. Upon his return to India, he practiced law at Allahabad High Court but became increasingly involved in national politics. Young Jawaharlal was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Inner Temple, where he trained to be a barrister. Motilal Nehru saw his son’s future in his capacity to absorb the language and culture of India’s British rulers. He was Motilal Nehru’s son, a nationalist statesman in the Indian Independence Movement, and a prominent lawyer. ![]() Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 – 1964) was India’s first Prime Minister, an Independence leader, and a central figure in Indian politics. ![]()
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