Motilal Nehru - Birth Centenary 1961

This first day cover was issued on the Birth Centenary of Motilal Nehru, father of Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India.

Motilal Nehru (6 May 1861 – 6 February 1931) was an Indian lawyer, an activist of the Indian National Movement and an important leader of the Indian National Congress, who also served as the Congress President twice, 1919–1920 and 1928–1929. He was the founder patriarch of India's most powerful political family, the Nehru-Gandhi family.