LEADERSHIP AND ELAN: A few leaders find themselves as world icons in their lifetime. India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, won hearts in India and abroad.
NATION-BUILDERS: Mahatma Gandhi in conversation with Pandit Nehru at Howrah Station before Gandhiji's departure from Calcutta.
WITH THE STALWARTS: Congress President Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru engaged in a brief conversation, before the latter announced his resignation from the Congress presidentship. Frontier Gandhi, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, and Babu Rajendra Prasad can be seen in the background.
SPEAKING TO THE MASSES: G. B. Pant, Pandit Nehru, Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit and Mrs. Indira Gandhi are seen at the Meerut Congress session in 1946.
THE TRICOLOUR: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Vice President, Interim Government, holds the silk flag. The flag was adopted as the national flag by the constitutent assembly at New Delhi.
INDUSTRIALISING INDIA: Jawaharlal Nehru, who declared open the Indian Rare Earths Factory at Alwaye, Travancore - Cochin, is on a conducted of the factory. (Left to right) : Dr.H.J.Bhabha, Dr.S.S.Bhatnagar, Shri K.R.K. Menon, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, The Rajpramukh of Travancore-Cochin and Shri Lal Bhahadur Shastri.
BUILDING INSTITUTIONS: The President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, opened the new building of the Indian Institute of Public Administration in New Delhi on January 31, 1959. Photo shows the President and the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, with members of the Executive Council and staff of the Institute.
POLITICS OF THE DAY: Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohammed Ali Jinnah about to leave for Birla House, Delhi, to see Mahatma Gandhi in this undated photo.
COUNTDOWN TO FREEDOM: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and his six colleagues who were sworn in on Sept. 2, 1946 as members of the Interim Government met the press informally the same afternoon. Pandit Nehru addressed the press for half an hour on the tasks before the new Government formed by him.
MOMENT IN WORLD HISTORY: The then Governor-General, Lord Mountbatten, saluting the Indian national flag, hoisted at India Gate, New Delhi, as Lady Edwina and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru look on. More than half a million people poured in to watch the event. Courtesy: Directorate of Public Relations, Govt. of India.
MAKING A REPUBLIC: The Britain's Prime Minister, Clement Attlee enjoys a joke with Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Premier, and Dr. Daniel Malan, South African Premier, at the sherry party given at No.10, Downing Street, London. The Commonwealth Premiers met to discuss India's decision to become a republic.
MEETING THE NIZAM: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru welcomed by His Exalted Highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad at King Kothi Palace in Hyderabad on Dec. 25, 1948, when the Prime Minister called on the Nizam.
WITH A MAHARAJA: The Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is being introduced to the State officials on his arrival at Mysore Aerodrome on December 31, 1948. Also seen in the picture is His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore (extreme left).
RECOGNISING A SCHOLAR: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, addressed the `Special Convocation' of the Mysore University at the Crawford Hall at Mysore, where the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science was conferred on him by His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore (the Chancellor) on December 28, 1948.
A DISCOVERER OF INDIA: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru taking a keen look at the bronze statue of the Vijayanagara emperor Sri Krishna Devaraya, installed inside the Tirumala temple complex.
VISITING MADRAS: Pandit Nehru with councillors of the Madras Corporation at the civic reception extended to the Congress President in Madras.
SCIENTIFIC TEMPER:Jawaharlal Nehru at the Pasteur Institute of India in Coonoor in this undated photo. Digital image: K. Anandan
PREMIER AT WORK: Jawaharlal Nehru with K.D. Malaviya, former Union Minister for Petroleum.
LEADERS OF A NATION: C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji), Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and the President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad share a lighter moment at an 'At Home' given in honour of Rajaji at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on the evening of Octoebr 25, 1957.
REPUBLICAN MOMENT: Shri Rajgopalachari's departure as the country's last Governor-General took place on Jan. 27, 1950, with full state honours at Palam Airport. He was seen off by the President, members of the Cabinet and the diplomatic corps. Photo shows Pandit Nehru presenting a "saffron flower" from Kashmir to Rajaji.
PRIME MINISTER: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru being sworn-in as Prime Minister of India, by the President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad in the presence of other Cabinet colleagues at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on May 14, 1952.
ENGAGING NEIGHBOURS: With the Maharajah. Picture shows (from left to right): B. K. Kapur, Chief of Protocol, Government of India, Chatterjee, Military Secretary to President, Jawaharlal Nehru, His Highness the Maharaja Mohan Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Sardar Baldev Singh and General Sharda Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana of Nepal at a reception to His Highness the Maharaja, the Prime Minister and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Nepal at New Delhi Railway Station on February 17, 1950.
WELCOME TO INDIA: Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, who arrived at Delhi Airport on January 8, 1958 on a four-day visit to India, seen leaving the airport in an open convertible car with the Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
WORLD LEADERS: The Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, with the U.S. President, John F Kennedy, in the White House garden during his visit to U.S. in 1962.
WELCOMING ROYALTY: President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the Vice President, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan and the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, receive Their Imperial Majesties, the Shahanshah and Empress of Iran at Palam Airport in Delhi on February 16, 1956.
IN CHINA: Lin Shao-Chi, chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, Pandit Nehru, Chu Teh, Vice Chairman of China at a tea reception to Mr. Nehru in Peking on October 23, 1954.
REDEFINING A NATION: The congress executive meets at the Prime Minister's residence in New Delhi to discuss the reorganisation of States on Dec. 23, 1955. The Prime Minister Pandit Nehru addressing the meeting, Dr. Sayed Mahmoud , Maulana Azad and Dr. Katju are seen in the picture.
IN CONVERSATION: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with Defence Minister Krishna Menon in Delhi on Oct. 25, 1962.
HOLDING THE REINS: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on a horse back to attend the Congress Working Committee meeting in this undated picture.
IN CELLULOID: A four-reel 35-minute motion picture film "Pandit Nehru in the United States" was presented to the Government of India by the representatives of Metro-Goldwin-Mayer in India. the presentation was at Parliament House on Feb. 13 (year unknown), by Mr. Edward F.O. 'Connor, Regional Director and Mr. Lee Kamern, Managing Director of M.G.M. India Ltd. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is seen receiving the gift from Mr. Lee Kamern. Mr. Connor appears at the centre.
THE END: K .Kapali, an ardent reader of The Hindu, shows a copy of the newspaper dated May 28, 1964, at his residence in Hyderbad. File photo: G. Krishnaswamy