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Indira Priyadarshini was born on November 19, 1917, she was the only child of Jawaharal Nehru and his wife Kamala in the city of Allahabad in Northern India. The second part of her name Priyadarshini, means"dear to behold." In the Indian tradition, ....

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.... with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who became the leader of India’s freedom struggle. Both Jawaharal and Motilal were drawn to Gandhi. They believed in Gandhi’s nonviolent noncooperation. The family also supported Gandhi’s policy of promoting domestic cottage industries by boycotting all foreign goods(Jayakar 67-68). Motilal’s involvement with the Congress made his home the hub of the freedom movement. It became the place where earnest, khadi-clad men came and went at all hours of the day and night; it became a place that rang with drafts, declarations, and debates. Indira absorbed the tension and excitement of those days and beca ....