Editing Jawaharlal Nehru (section)

=== Birth and family background ===
[[File:Anand Bhawan, Allahabad.jpg|thumb|[[Anand Bhawan]] the Nehru family home in [[Allahabad]]]]
Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in [[Allahabad]] in [[British Raj|British India]] to mother [[Swarup Rani Nehru|Swarup Rani]] [[née]] Thussu (1868–1938) and father [[Motilal Nehru]] (1861–1931).{{sfn|Zachariah|2004|p=11}} Both parents belonged to the community of [[Kashmiri Pandits]], or [[Brahmins]] originally from the [[Kashmir valley]]. Motilal, a self-made [[barrister]] of wealth, served as [[president of the Indian National Congress]] in 1919 and 1928.<ref>{{cite news |last=Babu |first=D. Shyam |title=Nehru and the Kashmir quandary |url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/nehru-and-the-kashmir-quandary/article28362589.ece |url-status=live |url-access=limited |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=11 July 2019 |access-date=15 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202142950/https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/nehru-and-the-kashmir-quandary/article28362589.ece |archive-date=2 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Nanda |first=B.R. |url= |title=The Nehrus: Motilal and Jawaharlal |date=1963 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn= |location= |pages=38–40 |author-link=}}</ref> Swarup Rani, raised in a family settled in [[Lahore]],{{sfn|Moraes|2007|p=21}} was Motilal's second wife, the first having died in [[childbirth]]. Jawaharlal was the firstborn.{{sfn|Nanda|2007|p=25}} Two sisters followed, the elder of which, [[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit|Vijaya Lakshmi]], became the first female president of the [[United Nations General Assembly]].<ref>[[Smith, Bonnie G.]] ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History''. Oxford: [[Oxford University Press]], 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-19-514890-9}}. pp. 406–407.</ref> The younger, [[Krishna Hutheesing]], became a noted writer, authoring several books on her brother.<ref name="Hindustan Times-2020">{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-school/jawaharlal-nehru-freedom-struggle-icon-maker-of-modern-india/story-VdEiIZ6OtVV2NFtTuToL2I.html|title=Jawaharlal Nehru: Freedom struggle icon, maker of modern India|date=2 December 2020|website=Hindustan Times|access-date=15 November 2021|archive-date=15 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115110906/https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-school/jawaharlal-nehru-freedom-struggle-icon-maker-of-modern-india/story-VdEiIZ6OtVV2NFtTuToL2I.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. Krishna Hutheesing, an Author and a Sister of Nehru, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/11/10/archives/mrs-krishna-hutheesing-an-author-and-a-sister-of-nehru-dies.html |access-date=2 July 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=10 November 1967 |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709213838/https://www.nytimes.com/1967/11/10/archives/mrs-krishna-hutheesing-an-author-and-a-sister-of-nehru-dies.html |url-status=live}}</ref>