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title: "Lesser-known facts about Jawaharlal Nehru"  
description: "November 14, a day which every Indian child eagerly waits for...and why not? On this day, they are showered with much love, sweets, and exciting gifts!"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-12-05  
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tags: ["Jawaharlal Nehru", "Nehru", "chacha nehru", "first prime minister", "prime minister of India"]  
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# Lesser-known facts about Jawaharlal Nehru

![Lesser known facts about Jawaharlal Nehru](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0cbbad26-6f15-41ce-86bc-a39e37208375/images/a4960453-a393-4dbf-889c-7fd3ecb1adc3.jpeg) ![Lesser known facts about Jawaharlal Nehru](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0cbbad26-6f15-41ce-86bc-a39e37208375/images/808e9810-9860-478b-8316-55f466198aeb.jpeg) Jawaharlal Nehru was nominated 11 times for Noble Prize mostly for Peace during 1950-1955 but he never able to get a Single Prize from Nobel. ![Lesser known facts about Jawaharlal Nehru](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0cbbad26-6f15-41ce-86bc-a39e37208375/images/9b5db3a4-7e1f-44e2-89c4-9b8155662437.jpeg) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru went to Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1907 and graduated with an honors degree in natural science in 1910. ![Lesser known facts about Jawaharlal Nehru](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0cbbad26-6f15-41ce-86bc-a39e37208375/images/159d1030-5bbc-499a-9f3e-45d5fe2313c7.jpeg) In August 1912, after returning to India, Nehru enrolled himself as an advocate of the Allahabad High Court and tried to settle down as a barrister. ![Lesser known facts about Jawaharlal Nehru](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0cbbad26-6f15-41ce-86bc-a39e37208375/images/66ee422e-d163-4f14-a1ea-3d90a6e8a794.jpeg) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru belonged to a Kashmiri Pandit family. ![Lesser known facts about Jawaharlal Nehru](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0cbbad26-6f15-41ce-86bc-a39e37208375/images/18ef2baa-eade-46aa-8312-85413068f2ec.jpeg) He had two more siblings, both of whom were girls. The name of her elder sibling was Vijay Lakshmi Pandit and the other was Krishna Hutheesing. ![Lesser known facts about Jawaharlal Nehru](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0cbbad26-6f15-41ce-86bc-a39e37208375/images/a4960453-a393-4dbf-889c-7fd3ecb1adc3.jpeg) In 1929, Nehru ascended to the post of Congress President and played a pivotal role in the independence struggle lead by congress since then.

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