![]() ![]() Earlier, in 1926, at the Madras Congress, Nehru had been instrumental in committing the Congress to the goal of Independence. He also attended the tenth anniversary celebrations of the October Socialist Revolution in Moscow in 1927. In Belgium, he attended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities in Brussels as an official delegate of the Indian National Congress. He toured Italy, Switzerland, England, Belgium, Germany and Russia in 1926. Nehru became the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in September 1923. He was twice imprisoned in connection with the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1920-22. He organised the first Kisan March in Pratapgarh District of Uttar Pradesh in 1920. In 1916 he had his first meeting with Mahatma Gandhi and felt immensely inspired by him. In 1912, he attended the Bankipore Congress as a delegate, and became Secretary of the Home Rule League, Allahabad in 1919. In India, he was inevitably drawn into the struggle for independence. He took keen interest in the Sinn Fein Movement in Ireland. Even as a student, he had been interested in the struggle of all nations who suffered under foreign domination. He returned to India in 1912 and plunged straight into politics. He was later called to the Bar from Inner Temple. At the age of fifteen, he went to England and after two years at Harrow, joined Cambridge University where he took his tripos in Natural Sciences. ![]() He received his early education at home under private tutors. Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allabahad on November 14, 1889.
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