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World Service,27 May 2019,9 mins

The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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