Brijlal Nehru

Brijalal Nehru (5 May 1884 – 27 May 1964) was a noted civil servant and member of the Nehru family.

He was the son of Pandit Nandlal Nehru (the elder brother of Motilal Nehru) and the cousin of Jawaharlal Nehru. Nandlal Nehru was Diwan of Khetri State for 11 years.[1]

Brijlal was born on 5 May 1884 in Allahabad and he grew up in Anand Bhawan.[2] Brijlal had been sent to Oxford in 1905 to compete for the Indian Civil Service by Motilal Nehru.[3] He was a senior officer of the Audit and Accounts Service. After his retirement, he served Finance Minister of Princely State of Jammu & Kashmir during reign of Maharaja Hari Singh.[1]

He was married to Rameshwari Raina, a noted social and women activist and a freedom fighter and recipient of Padma Bhushan in 1955,[4] Later she also won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1961.[5]

Their son was Braj Kumar Nehru (1909-2001), an administrator and Padma Vibhushan recipient.[6]

Brijlal died on 27 May 1964, the same day on which his illustrious cousin died.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Prominent Kashmiris". The Kashmir Education Culture & Science. Archived from the original on 13 June 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  2. ^ Brijlal, Sonia (2004). Two Alone, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. p. xxii. ISBN 9780143032458.
  3. ^ Mukherjee, Sumita (2009). Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-returned By Sumita Mukherjee. p. 41. ISBN 9781135271138.
  4. ^ "Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015.
  5. ^ Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, 53.
  6. ^ "Governors of Gujarat: details of the life sketch of B.K. Nehru". Rajbhavan (Govt of India). Archived from the original on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  7. ^ Brij Lal Nehru (c.1884 - 1964)