Rare Photos of First Prime Minister of India - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964) with his mother Swaroop Rani Nehru (Thussu), 1868 - 1938. Wife of Motilal Nehru. Jawaharlal Nehru was to become Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. 1950. (Image: Getty Images)

Sardar Vallabhai Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru (Image: Nehru Memorial Museum & Library)

Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. (Image: Getty Images)

Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, at Sevagram a village. (Image: Getty Images)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi with Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru. (Image: Getty Images)

Jawaharlal Nehru, President of the Indian Congress, with his daughter future Indian prime minister, Indira Nehru (Indira Priyardarshini Nehru, 1917 - 1984) in Bombay (now Mumbai). (Image: Getty Images)

Indian leader and nationalist statesman, the first prime minister of an independent India, Jawaharlal Pandit Nehru (1889 - 1964), wearing his Harrow School Cadets uniform. (Image: Getty Images)

Jawaharlal Nehru on horseback circa 1930 in India. (Image: Getty Images)

Gandhiji with Jawaharlal Nehru engrossed in serious discussion with the historic Quit India" resolution was passed in 1942. (Image: PIB)

A portrait of the Indian politician Pandit Nehru in 1906. (Image: Getty Images)

Jawaharlal Nehru and his Daughter,Indira. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru with Mahatma Gandhi. (Image: PIB)

Indian statesman Jawaharlal Nehru (1869 - 1964), known as Pandit Nehru, as a child with his father Pandit Motilal Nehru and mother Swarup Rani Nehru. (Image: Getty Images)

Prime Minister Nehru said, in a fighting radio address directed to India's officers and men on December 10th, said the nation was fully behind them. Nehru said India's armed forces were being expanded to meet the Chinese threat. 'If we are attacked, we will fully meet the attack and I am confident we will be victorious,' he said. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Nehru in Delhi with his grandson Rajiv Gandhi. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru with his daughter Indira Gandhi. (Image: Getty Images)

Prime Minister of India Jawarhalal Nehru, on a trip to the United States, is shown while paying a visit to Albert Einstein at his home at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. (Image: Getty Images)

Jawaharlal Nehru was a leader of Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement. He later became Prime Minister, 1930. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru with Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. (Image: Getty Images)

Photo of Nehru family with Indira as a schoolgirl, his father Jawaharlal on the far left and center of the grandfather Motilal Nehru in India. (Image: Getty Images)

Soviet Union Defence Minister Georgy Zhukov and Prime minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru meet for talks. (Image: Getty Images)

Jawaharlal Nehru, former Prime Minister of India, with a small panda from China. (Image: Getty Images)

Jawaharlal Nehru and his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit attend the Flag Salutation ceremony at the Azad Maidan in Bombay (Mumbai). (Image: Getty Images)

Jawaharlal Nehru with Lady Edwina Mountbatten. (Image: Getty Images)

Jawaharlal Nehru. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Nehru with Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, Minister of External Affairs, India, at India House, London. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Rabindranath Tagore. (Image: Getty Images)

Burmese Vice President Aung San and Prime Minister of India Pandit Nehru in Delhi. (Image: Getty Images)

President and Mrs Sean T O'Kelly with Mr and Mrs Nehru President of India at the Curragh racecourse. (Image: Getty Images)

Sardar Patel with Jawaharlal Nehru, following Indian Partition 1947. (Image: Getty Images)

Jawaharlal Nehru addresses parliament after Independence and partition 1947. (Image: Getty Images)

Photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru and Tassaduq Ahmad Khan Sherwani, on their way to meet with Mahatma Gandhi. (Image: Getty Images)

Portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru by Yousuf Karsh. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (Image: Getty Images)

Abul Kalam Azad, Mr. Asaf Ali and Jawaharlal Nehru. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (Image: Getty Images)

The President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on the tarmac at Belgrade Airport, Serbia. (Image: Getty Images)

Jawarhal Nehru. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru talking to sculptor Jacob Epstein at his studio, London. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru with the Egyptian Prime Minister Colonel Nassar. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (Image: Getty Images)

Indira Gandhi, Dr. Albert Einstein, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (Image: Getty Images)

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (Image: Getty Images)

Jawaharlal Nehru, former Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics. (Image: Getty Images)