![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly before Gandhi's assassination in 1948, Nehru became the first prime minister of independent India. When India was granted limited self-government in 1935, the Congress Party under Nehru refused to form coalition governments with the Muslim League in some provinces the hardening of relations between Hindus and Muslims that followed ultimately led to the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan. He was imprisoned nine times between 19 for his political activity. ![]() His close association with the Indian National Congress began in 1919 in 1929 he became its president, presiding over the historic Lahore session that proclaimed complete independence (rather than dominion status) as India's political goal. Gandhi's approach to Indian independence. More interested in politics than law, he was impressed by Mohandas K. First prime minister of independent India (1947 – 64), Nehru was educated at home and in Britain and became a lawyer in 1912. ![]()
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