Tryst with Destiny 14-15 August‚ 1947 -Jawaharlal Nehru With the clock striking the midnight hour on 14-15th August‚ 1947‚ India was ’to awake to freedom’. The Constituent Assembly to whom power was to be transferred began its sitting at 11 pm with Smt Sucheta Kripalani singing Vande Mataram. It was a historic and memorable occasion in the life of the Constituent Assembly. After an address by the President‚ Jawaharlal Nehru made his now famous Tryst with Destiny speech. He called upon
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A Tryst with Destiny A Tryst with Destiny – An analysis “Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny‚ and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge‚” Just before midnight hour on the 14th of August Jawerharlal Nehru‚ the first prime minister of India‚ speaks these words of poetry and sends India into its first day of freedom. The speech Prime Minister Nehru gives in August 1947‚ which makes India a country of its own and frees it from the English rule. This speech differs from so
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Jawaharlal Nehru (Hindustani: [ˈdʒəʋaːɦərˈlaːl ˈneːɦru] ( listen); 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics for much of the 20th century. He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian Independence Movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in office in 1964.[5] Nehru is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state; a
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Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Allahabad in British India. His father‚ Motilal Nehru (1861–1931)‚ a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community‚[5] served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle. His mother‚ Swaruprani Thussu (1868–1938)‚ who came from a well–known Kashmiri Brahmin family settled in Lahore‚[6] was Motilal’s second wife‚ the first having died in child birth. Jawaharlal was the eldest
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Jawaharlal Nehru (Hindi/Kashmiri: जवाहरलाल नेहरू‚ pronounced [dʒəʋaːɦərˈlaːl ˈneːɦruː]; 14 November 1889–27 May 1964[4]) was an Indian statesman who was the first (and to date the longest-serving) prime minister of India‚ from 1947 until 1964. One of the leading figures in the Indian independence movement‚ Nehru was elected by the Congress Party to assume office as independent India’s first Prime Minister‚ and re-elected when the Congress Party won India’s first general election in 1952. As one of
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first prime Minister of India‚ Jawaharlal Nehru. Also known as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru‚ he was one of the foremost leaders of Indian freedom struggle. The Father of the Nation‚ Mahatma Gandhi had realised the infinite potential of his favourite disciple at an early age. Jawaharlal Nehru literally shaped the destiny of free India. No wonder‚ he is also called as the architect of modern India. Let’s have a look at Jawaharlal Nehru biography. Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14‚ 1889. Pandit Ji
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h Jawaharlal Nehru If the first half of the 20th century in the history of India belonged to Mahatma Gandhi‚ the other half belonged to Jawaharlal Nehru‚ though he ruled over the newly independent India as its elected prime minister only for about 20 years from 1947 through 1964. It was on the democratic and secular pedestal that Nehru and his team built up‚ that India worked on to prove that it is a strong and prosperous presence among the comity of nations. Professor Percival Spear‚ famous
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The "Nehru Report" (August 1928) was a memorandum outlining a proposed new Dominion constitution for India. It was prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference chaired by Motilal Nehru. There were nine other members in this committee‚ including two Muslims. However‚ the final report was signed by only the following persons: Motilal Nehru‚ Ali Imam‚ Tej Bahadur Sapru‚ M.-S. Aney‚ Mangal Singh‚ Shuaib Qureshi‚ Subhas Chandra Bose‚ and G. R. Pradhan‚ with Shuaaib Qureshi disagreeing with some
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in the town of Porbander in the state of what is now Gujarat on 2 October 1869. He had his schooling in nearby Rajkot‚ where his father served as the adviser or prime minister to the local ruler. Though India was then under British rule‚ over 500 kingdoms‚ principalities‚ and states were allowed autonomy in domestic and internal affairs: these were the so-called ’native states’. Rajkot was one such state. His father died before Gandhi could finish his schooling
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History 383: Final Paper Assess the role of Nehru in the Partition of India. Introduction August 1947‚ the British Empire in India came to an end and two new independent countries were formed. Partition was a momentous event that was accompanied by widespread carnage and bloodshed‚ and left behind a legacy of refugee and border issues. It is historically impossible and inaccurate to identify a specific cause of Partition‚ instead it maybe understood that a series of political and social events lead
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