Jawahar Lal Nehru.

A kingdom was lost.


Jawahar Lal Nehru.

Last 14th November was Pandit Nehru’s Birthday.
He was sent to England at 16. He stayed there for 8 years.
He studied Latin, playing Cricket at Harrow. He studied science and
read Canterbury Tales of Chaucer at Cambridge. He was great social success in English society.
He moved easily through their drawing rooms absorbing English values and culture. So complete was his transformation that he was an English-man when he returned to India at the age of 24.

He applied for membership at local English Club, at Allahabad. He may have been a product of Harrow and Cambridge, but to the Club, he was an
Indian and was denied admission. And that was the end of the British.

This bitterness of rejection motivated him to join Congress.
He accepted Gandhiji as Guru.
Gandhiji would not accept him so easily.
He asked Nehru to tour India and report what he saw, and his views, on all he saw.
Nehru set out on a tour of the country which inspired him to write Discovery of India.