what is the family background or history of motilal nehru,give his real name and origin
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Raj Kaul is the earliest recorded ancestor of the Nehru–Gandhi family. He is believed to have migrated from Kashmir to Delhi in 1716. A jagir with a house situated on the banks of a canal was granted to Raj Kaul, and, from the fact of this residence, 'Nehru' (from Nahar, a canal) came to be attached to his name. Kaul was the original family name; this changed to Kaul-Nehru; and, in later years, Kaul was dropped out and the family name became only "Nehru".
Gangadhar Nehru, a direct descendant of Raj Kaul was appointed as the Kotwal of Delhi in the court of Bahadur Shah Zafar.
Later when the British troops began shelling their way into the city, he fled to Agra along with his wife Jeorani and their four children.Gangadhar died in February 1861 and his youngest child, Motilal, was born posthumously, three months later.
This Motilal was none other than the great Congressman, author of the Nehru Report and the father of our first PM - Motilal Nehru. Hence, the family lineage comes to be Kaul-Nehru with no intervention of Islam in it.
Thus, in historical aspects, there is almost negligible evidence to the Muslim-Nehru theory.
But, what if Nehru was a Muslim?
Motilal would still have been a great lawyer, a great freedom fighter while his son Jawaharlal Nehru would still have been the first prime minister, still, a great freedom fighter who spent ten whole years of his life in jail, still the one who established the Indian administrative system and still our beloved “Chacha”.
Actually, if you ask me, I would've been happier if he was a Muslim; we would've got some more examples of good Muslims just like Maulana Azad and APJ Abdul Kalam!
Then what's the reason behind asking such questions? I've seen a no. of people asking this question.Why is it so? Why is it that for the today's Indian population, a person's caste, religion or ancestry is more important than his deeds? Nehru became Nehru not because of his caste, religion or lineage but only because of his contribution to the Independence struggle and the national development and must be assessed on that basis only.
Nehru was neither a Hindu nor a Muslim, he was just a human being.