Motilal Nehru

Motilal Nehru was an Indian lawyer, an activist of the Indian Independence 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 the Nehru-Gandhi family. Motilal Nehru was born on May 6, 1861, the posthumous son of Gangadhar Nehru and Jeevarani (or Jeorani). Many of Motilal's suits were civil cases involving large land-owning families and soon he made a mark for himself in the legal profession of Allahabad.

With the success of his practice, in 1900, he bought a large family home in the Civil Lines of the city, rebuilt it and named it Anand Bhavan.