Editing Jawaharlal Nehru (section)

=== Popularity ===
[[File:Jawaharlal Nehru with Einstein, 1949.jpg|thumb|alt=See caption |Nehru with [[Albert Einstein]] in Princeton, New Jersey, 1949]]
[[File:Jawaharlal Nehru's motorcade passing through the crowded streets of Djakarta, Indonesia,1950.jpg|thumb|right|Nehru with Indonesian president [[Sukarno]] in [[Jakarta]] in 1950]]
[[File:Jawaharlal Nehru with tiger cubs.jpg|thumb|Nehru playing with a tiger cub at his home in 1955]]

To date, Nehru is considered the most popular prime minister, winning three consecutive elections with around 45% of the vote.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/after-nehru-and-indira-modi-is-only-pm-to-come-back-to-power-with-full-majority/articleshow/69464495.cms?from=mdr|title=After Nehru and Indira, Modi is only PM to come back to power with full majority|date=23 May 2019|newspaper=The Economic Times|access-date=22 August 2021|archive-date=22 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822094451/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/after-nehru-and-indira-modi-is-only-pm-to-come-back-to-power-with-full-majority/articleshow/69464495.cms?from=mdr|url-status=live}}</ref> A [[Pathé News]] archive video reporting Nehru's death remarks "Neither on the political stage nor in moral stature was his leadership ever challenged".<ref>{{Citation|title=World Mourns Nehru (1964)| date=13 April 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcR3eceOf4|access-date=31 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731192854/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcR3eceOf4|archive-date=31 July 2021}}</ref> In his book ''Verdicts on Nehru'', [[Ramachandra Guha]] cited a contemporary account that described what Nehru's 1951–52 Indian general election campaign looked like:

<blockquote>Almost at every place, city, town, village or wayside halt, people had waited overnight to welcome the nation's leader. Schools and shops closed; milkmaids and cowherds had taken a holiday; the kisan and his helpmate took a temporary respite from their dawn-to-dusk programme of hard work in field and home. In Nehru's name, stocks of soda and lemonade sold out; even water became scarce ... Special trains were run from out-of-the-way places to carry people to Nehru's meetings, enthusiasts travelling not only on footboards but also on top of carriages. Scores of people fainted in milling crowds.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Guha|first=Ramachandra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDikAwAAQBAJ&q=Almost+at+every+place,+city&pg=PT9|title=Verdicts on Nehru|date=2013|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|isbn=978-93-5118-757-8}}</ref></blockquote>

In the 1950s, Nehru was admired by world leaders such as British prime minister Winston Churchill, and US President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. A letter from Eisenhower to Nehru, dated 27 November 1958, read:

<Blockquote>Universally you are recognised as one of the most powerful influences for peace and conciliation in the world. I believe that because you are a world leader for peace in your individual capacity, as well as a representative of the largest neutral nation....<ref>{{Cite web|series=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, South and Southeast Asia, Volume XV – Office of the Historian|url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v15/d222|access-date=31 July 2021|title=Letter From President Eisenhower to Prime Minister Nehru|date=27 November 1958|website=history.state.gov|archive-date=31 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731192904/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v15/d222|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>

In 1955, Churchill called Nehru, the light of Asia, and a greater light than [[Gautama Buddha]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Nayantara Sahgal|title=Jawaharlal Nehru: Civilizing a Savage World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KycnN-MlfY4C&pg=PP9 |year=2010|publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=978-0-670-08357-2|page=59}}</ref> Nehru is time and again described as a charismatic leader with a rare charm.{{efn|<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ian Hall|first=The Conversation|title=Nehru, the architect of modern India, also helped discredit European imperialism|url=https://scroll.in/article/1002353/nehru-the-architect-of-modern-india-also-helped-discredit-european-imperialism|access-date=15 November 2021|website=Scroll.in|date=22 August 2021|archive-date=15 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115163627/https://scroll.in/article/1002353/nehru-the-architect-of-modern-india-also-helped-discredit-european-imperialism|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=How the ANC could fade away – Opinion |url=https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/how-the-anc-could-fade-away|access-date=15 November 2021|website=www.politicsweb.co.za|archive-date=15 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115163628/https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/how-the-anc-could-fade-away|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=15 November 2021|title=UP Next: How Nehru, Swami Prabhu Dutt Brahmachari's ideas of India resonate in 2022 polls|url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/up-next-how-nehru-swami-prabhu-dutt-brahmacharis-ideas-of-india-resonate-in-2022-polls-10136981.html|access-date=15 November 2021|website=Firstpost|archive-date=15 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115041104/https://www.firstpost.com/india/up-next-how-nehru-swami-prabhu-dutt-brahmacharis-ideas-of-india-resonate-in-2022-polls-10136981.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=PM Modi Is a 'Charismatic' Leader Like Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi: Rajinikanth|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-pm-modi-is-a-chrarismatic-leader-like-jawaharlal-nehru-rajiv-gandhi-rajnikanth/331096|access-date=15 November 2015|website=outlookindia|archive-date=28 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528133731/https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-pm-modi-is-a-chrarismatic-leader-like-jawaharlal-nehru-rajiv-gandhi-rajnikanth/331096|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Service|first=Tribune News|title=A thousand lies can't dwarf the giant Nehru was|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/a-thousand-lies-cant-dwarf-the-giant-nehru-was-258860|access-date=15 November 2021|website=Tribuneindia News Service|archive-date=30 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240330155854/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/a-thousand-lies-cant-dwarf-the-giant-nehru-was-258860|url-status=live}}</ref>}}