ABSTRACT
Jawarharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad on 14th November in 1889. The dominating force in Jawarharlals life was his father. Jawarharlal inherited from his father an admiration for English things and people, common sense, tolerance and admiration of Muslims, and doubts about much of the Hindu religion. Then he went to Cambridge to spend three peaceful and blissfully happy years, studying natural sciences: chemistry, geology and botany. He watched what was happening in British politics, was fascinated by the early developments in flying, and became vaguely interested in Socialism. He always wore expensive fashionable clothes, went to fashionable clubs and parties, and all the social functions which the English upper classes usually attended. Motilal Nehru had made his house, Anand Bhawan, one of the most important social centres in Allahabad. His life began to change in 1916 when he was married. He was by then twenty-six years old and a very eligible bachelor.
