Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian politician and statesman, a leader in the Indian Independence Movement, and the first Prime Minister of independent India. He was one of the founders of the international Non-Aligned Movement. He is often credited for the early success of five year plans, IITs and industrialization of modern India. He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi, who were to later serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India, respectively. In this post, I have compiled a collection of rare old photographs of Pandit Nehru. Please have a look and don’t forget to share on facebook if you like these photos.
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Nehru as a boy with father Moti Lal Nehru and mother Swarup rani
Nehru’s Yagnopveet Sanskaar
Nehru as a cadet at Harrow
Bar at Law
Marrige 1916
Nehru with daughter Indira Priyadarshani 1918
Jawaharlal Nehru with Wife Kamala and Daughter Indira
Albert Einstein Meets Jawaharlal Nehru – 1949
Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru – 1950’s
Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru – November 4 1936, Bolpur Bengal
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Turns Water Irrigation Wheel – Khanpur 1958
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Rides Yak During Visit to Bhutan in Himalayas – 1958
President and Mrs John F Kennedy greet Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Mrs Gandhi
Portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru – 1942 Portrait
Nehru and Gandhi
Nehru with Rajiv Gandhi after the death of Feroz Gandhi
Nehru with Edwina
Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose (Right) with Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru (Middle) and Professor Khitish Roy (Curator, Rabindra Bhavana) – Shantiniketan, West Bengal 1958 b
Lord Mountbatten swears in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of free India at the ceremony held at 8_30 AM on August 15, 1947
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru with his sister Krishna Hutheesing – May 1946
Jawaharlal Nehru hosting Queen Elizabeth II during state visit by British monarch 1961
Jawaharlal Nehru and Dalai Lama 1961
India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Welcomes Chou En-Lai of China at New Delhi Palam Airfield – 1954
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, meeting people on the grounds of his residence – New Delhi November 1962
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with his grandsons Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi – 1950
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with British PM Harold MacMillan & his wife Lady Dorothy MacMillan – 1960
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Presenting a Trophy on the Occassion of the First Boat Race in Alleppey, Kerala – 1952
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit during visit to annexed Hyderabad – 1949
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Daughter Mrs Indira Gandhi – 1956
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (right) toasts United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser (left) and Indonesian President Sukarno (center) in New York, USA 1960
Indian Planning Commission Meeting (Jawaharlal Nehru in Center) – New Delhi, India June 1952
Nehru, Mrs Indira Gandhi, Shri K C Reddy, Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda, Sardar Swaran Singh and others bidding farewell to the Soviet Leaders at Palam Airport, New Delhi December-1955
Rajendra Prasad, President of India and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister photographed with the artists who entertained a large number of guests at a reception held by the President at Government House, New Delhi
US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (2nd from right), Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (1st from right) and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (3rd from right) Enjoying a Snake Charmer Show – c1960’s. No wonder why India was called the land of snake charmers.
Jawaharlal Nehru with his daughter Indira and grandsons Rajiv and Sanjay 1959
Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel – 1946
Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru – 1950
Cigarette smoking is good for health but bad for INDIA
A pic with Bollywood veterans is marvalous
The photo with Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi must be of 1960, and not of 1950 as mentioned.
Nice collection of photoes
The pic of him lightning a cigarette for Edwina is actually British high commissioners wife and not Edwina.
Vintage Photographs Of the Great Leader of India Pt, Jawahar Lal Nehru.Thanks for providing here.
fellow who although did not get even 1 vote out fo 15 votes to be nominated as PRESIDENT OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS and subsequent to become FIRST PM of India, yet shamelessly bypasses democracy, sidelines the ‘person selected as president of Indian national congress ‘ by votes of 13-0 i.e ‘Sardar Patel’,as a crooked mindset and closeness to Gandhi, gets himself ‘ names and nominated ‘ to become president of the party,by forcing Gandhi to ask Sardar to withdraw his nomination, by cheating becomes first PM of India. there was no democracy,no morals,no values,no ethics when this fellow was in congress .
Thanks for this opportunity.
Your team has taken good efforts for it.
Congratulations !
—Avinash Patil,
MANS’s Vivek Jagar.