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Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) was an important figure in India's independence movement and independent India's first leader and prime minister. He was often called Pandit Nehru. Pandit means "wise man." It also refers ro a Hindu from the mostly-Muslim region of Kashmir.
Nehru was the chief architect of domestic and foreign policies between 1947 and 1964. Born into a wealthy Kashmiri Brahman family and educated at Cambridge, Nehru embodied a synthesis of ideals: politically an ardent nationalist, ideologically a pragmatic socialist, and secular in religious outlook, Nehru possessed a rare combination of intellect, breadth of vision, and personal charisma that attracted support throughout India. [Source: Library of Congress *]
Nehru's appreciation for parliamentary democracy coupled with concerns for the poor and underprivileged enabled him to formulate policies that often reflected his socialist leanings. Both as prime minister and as Congress president, Nehru pushed through the Indian Parliament, dominated by members of his own party, a series of legal reforms intended to emancipate Hindu women and bring equality. These reforms included raising the minimum marriageable age from twelve to fifteen, empowering women to divorce their husbands and inherit property, and declaring illegal the ruinous dowry system. *
Nehru was the father of Indira Gandhi, India's second leader, and grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi, India's third leader. Nehru jackets and shirts—worn by the Beatles and Monkees and others— had its heyday in the late 1960s. Many Indians consider Nehru, his daughter Indira and Mahatma Gandhi to be "modern gods."