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Witness History: The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

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The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

27/05/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

The man who led India to independence died on May 27th 1964

The man who led India to independence died on May 27th 1964. His niece Nayantara Sahgal remembers the great activist and intellectual.

The man who led India to independence and its first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died on May 27th 1964. His niece Nayantara Sahgal spoke to Louise Hidalgo about the great activist and intellectual in 2014.

This programme is a rebroadcast.


Photo: Jawaharlal Nehru, 1958 (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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