Kamala Nehru

Overview

Kamala Kaul Nehru born Delhi, India August 1, 1899 (d. 1936). Indian nonviolent freedom fighter arrested for leading nonviolent protests. Wife of first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, sister-in-law of internationalist nonviolence leader Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, mother of Indira Gandhi, and grandmother of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Led women's picketing Allahabad 1921; twice jailed; member of Gandhi's ashram; British refused her offer to be arrested as member of Working Party of Indian National Congress which launched civil disobedience campaign, Delhi Aug. 26, 1930.

Quotations

"[T]he most effective way of gaining our freedom is through nonviolence. We will therefore prepare ourselves by withdrawing, so far as we can, all voluntary association from the British Government, and will prepare for civil disobedience. . . " (Jan. 28, 1930 independence pledge; photo Wikipedia)