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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)

© The estate of Sir Jacob Epstein / Tate Images. Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

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Nehru was home-schooled in British India in both Western and Indian education, before graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge and Inner Temple. He trained as a barrister before returning to India to practice law. He joined the Indian National Congress party in 1919, becoming a close ally to Gandhi, though both had differing views on many issues. He was imprisoned by the British for nine years in the lead-up to independence. When he was freed he found that the Muslim League headed by Muhammed Ali Jinnah, his old Congress colleague and now his opponent, had begun dominating Muslim politics in India. Nehru and Jinnah were key players in the partition of 1947, culminating in the dissolution of the by-now unpopular British Raj, the independence of India and the birth of Pakistan.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)

Date

1948

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 38 x W 40 x D 24 cm

Accession number

6905

Acquisition method

purchased, 2011

Work type

Bust

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