As a child he was thoughtful and very observant.
Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru's father, had him tutored at home until the age of 15.
Jawaharlal Nehru graduated in natural science, in 1910, from trinity college, cambridge and came back to india 1912. He practiced as an advocate in allahabad high court as he wanted to settle as a barrister.
It is said that nehru overheard general dyer's stisfaction over the jallianwala bagh mass murder, in a train and pledged to fight the british.
He penned his biography "toward freedom" while he was in prison.
There were four assassination attempts on him. The first was during the partition in 1947. second was by a rickshaw-puller in 1955; Third in mumbai in 1956 and fourth in 1961.
He did not like having security around him and despised to disturb traffic due to his movements.
Under nehru's governance, the indian parliament passed many changes in hindu laws to increase the legal rights and social freedom of women. Under his governance, caste discrimination was also made illegal.
Artical 44 of the indian constitition, which forms the basis of secularism in india, was eritten to mold india as a secular country and wanted to eradicated religious taboos from india.
To support the freedom struggle, nehru shunned western attire. The jackets nehru started wearing have been named after him.
In the year 1916, he married Kamala Kaul. Their daughter, Indira Gandhi, was born the next year. She would grow up to become the first (and till date, the only) female Prime Minister of India.
The very first speech Nehru made as the first Prime Minister of independent India, titled ‘Tryst with Destiny’, is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century.