Kamala Nehru Mobile Desktop Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Terms of Use Privacy Search Wikipedia Kamala Nehru Born 1 August 1899 Delhi, India Died 28 February 1936 (aged 36) Lausanne, Switzerland Spouse(s) Jawaharlal Nehru Children Indira Gandhi Kamala Kaul Nehru ( pronunciation ; 1 August 1899 - 28 February 1936) was a freedom fighter and the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru - leader of the Indian National Congress and the first prime minister of India and Kamala Nehru is the mother of Indira Gandhi. She was known to be deeply sincere, highly patriotic, serious minded and sensitive. [1] Kamala Nehru was born on 1 August 1899 and brought up in a traditional Kashmiri Brahmin middle-class family of old Delhi. [1] 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. [1] and she did not know a word of English. Nehrus sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, looked upon Kamala with that unique contempt that only an English-speaking Indian can have for the unanglicized. Kamala wedded Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru at the age of 17. Her husband went to a trip in the Himalayas shortly after their marriage. [2] In his autobiography, Jawaharlal Nehru, referring to his wife, stated I almost overlooked her. [2] Kamala gave birth to a girl child in November 1917, [1] Indira Priyadarshini, who later succeeded her father as prime minister and head of the Congress party. Kamala gave birth to a boy in November 1924, but he lived for only a week. [2] Nehru in 1918 with wife Kamala and daughter Indira Nehru was involved with the Nehrus in the national movement, that she emerged into the forefront. In the Non Cooperation movement of 1921, she organized groups of women in Allahabad and picketed shops selling foreign cloth and liquor. When her husband was arrested to prevent him delivering a seditious public speech, she went in his place to read it out. The British soon realized the threat that Kamala Nehru posed to them and how popular she had become with womens groups all over India. She was thus arrested on two occasions for involvement in freedom struggle activities. [3] Kamala Nehru spent some time at Gandhis ashram with Kasturba Gandhi where she built a close friendship with Prabhavati Devi. [4] Kamala died from tuberculosis in Lausanne, Switzerland on 28 February 1936, with her daughter and her mother-in-law by her side. Kamala was cremated at the Lausanne Crematorium. A number of institutions in India, such as Kamla Nehru College, University of Delhi, Kamala Nehru Degree Evening college (Bangalore) , Kamala Nehru Park, Kamala Nehru Institute of Technology(Sultanpur), Kamala Nehru Hospital, Kamala Nehru Polytechnic (Hyderabad) are named after her.
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