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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. Nehru, Pandit Motilal 1861-1931. Indian nationalist politician who was an associate of Mahatma Gandhi and an influential leader in the years leading to India's independence. His son Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), also greatly involved in the movement for self-governance, was the political heir to Gandhi and the first prime minister of independent India (1947-1964).

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule; was the first prime minister of the Republic of India from 1947 to 1964 (1889-1964)

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  • “You need to hit more NYC loft parties if you think platforms and Nehru is out of style …”

    When Your Day Is Done and You Wanna Run

  • “He would see this as a total betrayal of what the nationalist leaders had promised during the struggle for independence — a promise that had figured even in Nehru's rousing speech on the eve of independence in August”

    Tagore and His India

  • “Ambassador Nehru is no stranger to international financial negotiations.”

    India—Today and Tomorrow

  • “The picture, in Nehru's words, is "a sluggish stream, living in the past, moving slowly through the accumulations of dead centuries.”

    India and the Sixties

  • Nehru is not alone in the ambition to see his country leading a great Asian uncommitted third force between warring Capitalist West and Communist East.”

    Muslim and Hindu

  • “Furthermore, the Government appears to have done with mere detention of the most persistent and violent of their opponents: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is doing two years 'time at hard labor, and Mr. Subhas Bose, former mayor of Calcutta,, seems about to follow his example.”

    Federal India

  • “Its length is similar to suit jacket and has a standup collar also called Nehru collar; it's most dominant characteristic.”

    The Indian Jodhpuri

  • “Ms. Vyarawalla called Nehru her "all-time favorite subject" and "extremely photogenic," and when photographing him she would wait for an informal image to materialize - lighting a cigarette or releasing a pigeon.”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “Parekh, in his speech "India's place in the world", called Nehru's foreign policy a mistake.”

    The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage

  • “He labelled Nehru a Peter Pan, a "literary figure" who "should have been an English professor, not a politician", "an arrogant Brahmin who covers his Hindu trickiness under a veneer of Western education".”

    In Defence of Marxism

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