The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In May 1964 India's first prime minister and the man who led India to independence, Jawaharlal Nehru, died. On the 50th anniversary of his death in 2014, Nehru's niece, the writer Nayantara Sahgal, shared memories of her famous uncle with Louise Hidalgo. Photo: Indira Gandhi paying her respects at the body of her father, Jawaharlal Nehru.(AFP/Getty Images)

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0:47.4	Hello and welcome to this edition of the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:53.0	All this week we're bringing you programmes related to India
0:57.0	because the partition of India happened 75 years ago in August 1947.
1:03.0	Today we go back to May 1964,
1:06.0	when the country's first Prime Minister Jawahal Halal Nehru,
1:09.4	the man who led India to independence, died.
1:12.6	In the programme from 2014, presented by Louise Hidalgo,
1:17.0	Nehru's niece, the writer Nayantara Sigal, remembers her famous uncle.
1:27.8	It's May the 27th, 1964, India.
1:31.8	And the man who led India to independence,
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