Asia · 1900–1950
Indian Independence Movement
Congress leader who moved the 1929 Purna Swaraj resolution and became independent India’s first prime minister.
Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889–1964, took part in the major Congress campaigns and spent years in British prisons. At the 1929 Lahore session of Congress he moved the resolution for complete independence, Purna Swaraj. On 15 August 1947 he became the first prime minister of independent India. The pin is Prayagraj, formerly Allahabad, his birthplace. The 1929 session was in Lahore, which is already crowded with other markers, so it stays in the text.
Theme. Congress · Purna Swaraj
Key figures. Mahatma Gandhi
Outcome. Became prime minister at independence in 1947 and held the office until his death in 1964.
Casualties. Not a personal tally. Independence came with Partition’s mass displacement and death.
Influence. The Congress leader who carried the demand for complete independence into the first government.