: Nehru, the architect of modern India, also helped discredit European imperialism #IndiaNEWS Jawaharlal Nehru was not just the architect of modern India and the country’s first prime minister. He

Nehru, the architect of modern India, also helped discredit European imperialism #IndiaNEWS
Jawaharlal Nehru was not just the architect of modern India and the country’s first prime minister. He also played a central role in the discrediting of European imperialism and gave a voice to people across Asia and Africa struggling for self-determination and racial equality.An unlikely revolutionary, Nehru was born in 1889 into wealth and privilege. His father was a Kashmiri, a high caste Brahmin and a successful barrister, able to fund the best education for the young Jawaharlal the British system could offer.After attending Harrow School and Cambridge University, Nehru, too, became a lawyer and could easily have settled into a comfortable life. Instead, Nehru was swept by the enigmatic Mahatma Gandhi into the campaign against British rule in India. For the next 25 years, he dressed in homespun cotton, endured long terms in prison and campaigned relentlessly for the cause.Successes and failuresOnce the British were overthrown and he rose to power, Nehru quickly set about ensuring his vast, impoverished and hugely diverse country was governed by democratically elected leaders and the rule of law.In parallel, he tried to make India economically self-reliant, so that it could no longer be exploited or manipulated by foreign powers. Perhaps inevitably, given the scale of the challenges involved, the results of...Read more

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