Indian Prime Minister and co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.

 

He is praised for creating a system providing universal primary education, reaching children in the farthest corners of rural India. Nehru's education policy is also credited for the development of world-class educational institutions such as the

 

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Indian Institutes of Technology, and the Indian Institutes of Management.

 

As India's first Prime minister and external affairs minister, Jawaharlal Nehru played a major role in shaping modern India's government and political culture along with sound foreign policy.

"Nehru was a great man... Nehru gave to Indians an image of themselves that I don't think others might have succeeded in doing." – Sir Isaiah Berlin

In addition, Nehru's stance as an unfailing nationalist led him to also implement policies which stressed commonality among Indians while still appreciating regional diversities. This proved particularly important as post-Independence differences surfaced since British withdrawal from the subcontinent prompted regional leaders to no longer relate to one another as allies against a common adversary. While differences of culture and, especially, language threatened the unity of the new nation, Nehru established programs such as the National Book Trust and the National Literary Academy which promoted the translation of regional literatures between languages and also organized the transfer of materials between regions. In pursuit of a single, unified India, Nehru warned, "Integrate or perish."

 

Nehru Quotations:

 

. . . The time is past for Politics and Religion. Now is the time for Science and Spirituality*. . . 

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

*Spirituality encompasses everything that we cannot see directly with our eyes, or directly perceive by our other senses, and that we know by our reason - whose effects can be deduced or inferred by our observations - like love, justice, peace, etc.

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