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- Jawaharlal Nehru was the former prime minister of India.
- He was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and author.
- He was born on 14 November 1889 and he died on 27 May 1964.
- Nehru married Kamala Kaul and had one child, Indira.
- He died in the afternoon of 27 May 1964, at the age of 75, of a heart attack.
- He served his country for 16 years.
- He promoted parliamentary democracy, secularism, and science and technology during the 1950s, powerfully influencing India’s arc as a modern nation.
- He helped lead India to independence, which ended the British raj.
- He introduced the historic ‘Quit India’ movement at the All-India Congress Committee session in Bombay in 1942.
- He adored children, and loved them