Kamala Nehru

Kamala Kaul Nehru August 1899 February 1936 was a freedom fighter, wife of Jawaharlal Nehru , the first Prime Minister of India, and the mother of Indira Gandhi, also another Prime Minister. Her grandson Rajiv Gandhi too was a Prime Minister of India for a term ofyears. She was known to be deeply sincere, highly patriotic, serious minded and sensitive.

Kamala Nehru was born onAugust 1899 and brought up in a traditional Kashmiri Brahmin middleclass family of old Delhi. Rajpati and Jawaharmal Kaul were Kamala Nehrus parents Kamala, their eldest child, had two brothers, Chand Bahadur Kaul and the botanist, Kailas Nath Kaul, and a sister, Swaroop Kathju. All her schooling had been at home, under the guidance of a Pandit and a Maulvi, and she did not know a word of English.

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