Nehru (right) and S. Bose
Jawaharlal Nehru (* November 14th, 1889 in Allahabad) is an Indian Politician. Influenced by a western Home teacher, he came into contact with Theosophy, and via this to the Hinduist and buddhist Texts. He got a good education in Great Britain at the Elite School of Harrow and the University of Cambridge, where he studied Laws. He too is very well-read, he highly estimates e.g. George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, John Maynard Keynes, and Bertrand Russell.
In 1912, he went back to India and joined the Congress Party. Since 1929, Nehru was next to Mohandas Gandhi (whose Secretary he had been since 1917) the leader of the independence movement in British India. He became more than once (elections are yearly) President of the Congress Party. During 1930-33, he was in prison for his causes. In this time, he wrote "The Discovery of India", "Glimpses of World History", "An Autobiography", and many letters to his daughter. As early as the mid-1930s, people saw in him the natural successor to Gandhi. Early in 1940, Nehru struggled with Muslim leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah, because the latter had demanded independence for Pakistan, which would tear India apart.
In 1916, Nehru married Kamala Kaul from Delhi, with whom he had the next year their daughter Indira. In 1936, Kamala died.
