Background
Kamala Nehru was born on 1 August 1899 and brought up in a traditional Kashmiri Brahmin middle-class family of old Delhi.
Kamala Nehru was born on 1 August 1899 and brought up in a traditional Kashmiri Brahmin middle-class family of old Delhi.
Her grandson Rajiv Gandhi too was a Prime Minister of India for a term of 5 years. She was known to be deeply sincere, highly patriotic, serious minded and sensitive. All her schooling had been at home, under the guidance of a Pandit and a Maulvi, and she did not know a word of English.
Kamala was involved with the Nehrus in the national movement, that she emerged into the forefront.
In the Non Cooperation movement of 1921, she organized groups of women in Allahabad and picketed shops selling foreign cloth and liquor. The British soon realized the threat that Kamala Nehru posed to them and how popular she had become with women"s groups all over India.
She was thus arrested on two occasions for involvement in Independence struggle activities. Under such dire straits Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose (the legendary freedom fighter and Chief of INA) took care of Kamala and took her to Vienna and arranged for her treatments there.
Eventually, she was taken to Lausanne, where finally she expired.
Subhash Bose was there throughout this period, and arranged for her cremation at the Lausanne Crematorium. A number of institutions in India, such as Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital & Regional Cancer Centre, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi, Kamala Nehru Degree Evening college (Bangalore), Kamala Nehru Park, Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology (Sultanpur), Kamala Nehru Polytechnic (Hyderabad) are named after her.