Biography of gangadhar nehru
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Gangadhar Nehru
Indian freedom fighter (1827 – 1861)
Gangadhar Nehru (1827 – 1 February 1861) was the Kotwal (chief police officer) of Delhi during the Indian War of Independence in 1857.[1][2][3][4] He was the father of freedom fighter and Congress leader Motilal Nehru and the grandfather of freedom fighter and first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.[5][6][7][8][9]
Early life
[edit]He was born in 1827,[10] was appointed the Kotwal of Delhi sometime before 1857. He was the last Kotwal of Delhi.[11][12][13] After the revolt of 1857,[14] when the British police took over the city of Delhi and started the massacre,[15] he moved to Agra with his wife Jiorani Devi and their three children.[16][17][18][19]
Biography
[edit]He had three sons. The eldest, Banshidhar Nehru, started w
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Motilal Nehru
President: 1861-1931 (Amritsar 1919, Calcutta 1928)
Pandit Motilal Nehru, an eminent lawyer and politician, was born on 6 May 1861. The Nehrus hailed from Kashmir, but had settled in Delhi since the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Motilal Nehru’s grandfather, Lakshmi Narayan, became the first Vakil of the East India Company at the Mughal Court of Delhi. His father, Gangadhar, was a police officer in Delhi in 1857, when it was engulfed by the Mutiny.
When the British troops shelled their way into the town, Gangadhar fled with his wife Jeorani and four children to Agra where he died four years later. Three months after his death Jeorani gave birth to a boy who was named Motilal.
Motilal Nehru spent his childhood at Khetri in Rajasthan, where his elder brother Nandlal became the Diwan. In 1870 Nandlal quit Khetri, qualified as a lawyer and began to practice law at Agra. When the High Court was transferred to Allahabad, he moved with it.
Meanwhile Motilal Nehr
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Gangadhar Nehru
Gangadhar Nehru (23 September 1827 – 1 February 1861) was an Indian police officer, who served as the last kotwal of Delhi (Chief of Police) in the court of the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah II, before the position was abolished following the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
He was the father of Indian independence activist Motilal Nehru and grandfather of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and thus part of the Nehru–Gandhi family.[1]
Biography[edit]
During the early part of the 19th century, Gangadhar's father, Laxmi Narain Nehru, worked as a scribe in Delhi for the East India Company.[2]
Gangadhar Nehru was appointed the Kotwal (a rank similar to ledare of police) of Delhi in the court of Mughal emperorBahadur Shah II.[3] He was the last person to hold that post, as the institution was soon abolished as a result of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.[4] Later when the British troops began shelling their way into the ci