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Nobel peace prize eluded Nehru

New Delhi, Oct 14 (PTI) Not only to Mahatma Gandhi, the
Noble Peace Prize eluded India's first Prime Minister and
charismatic leader Jawahar Lal Nehru several times despite
being nominated by 11 groups or individuals.
Nehru was nominated several times from 1950 to 1955 while
Gandhi was nominated five times during 1937 to 1948, according
to Nobel Foundation database.
Gandhi was first nominated in 1937 and finally in 1948,
the year he was assassinated. "He was not awarded the Prize
(as a posthumous award was not allowed by the statutes)
no laureate was named for 1948 either," the database said.
Nehru's first nomination was made in 1950 by L.R.
Sivasubramanian, professor of Law in Delhi university.
The professor felt that Nehru deserved the award as he
"established parliamentary government in India, and he had
been one of the principal leaders of the independence
movement. He was nominated for his neutralist foreign policy
and for upholding the same principles as Gandhi."
In the same year, Nehru was also nominated by M.
Venkatarangaiya, a professor of Political science from Mumbai,
then known as Bombay.
The evaluation for the nomination was conducted by
Jens Arup Seip, a professor from Oslo, it said.
The Prize for this year went to Ralph Bunche, a
professor of Harvard university, for his mediation in
Palestine in late 1940s.
Nehru got three nominations in 1951 by Nobel Peace
laureate 1946 of Boston Emily Greene Balch. Other nominators
were Lewis Hoskins, member of Americans FriNNNN Service
committee and Shrinavala Sharma, professor in university of
Madras.

Leon Jouhaux, a trade union leader from France, won
the peace prize in 1951.
Nehru got three nominations in 1953 also. This time
several members of Belgian National Assembly nominated the
Indian leader.
He was also nominated by several members of Belgian
Senate and separately by several professors of Bruxelles
University of Belgium but the 1953 Peace Prize went to George
C. Marshall, who led the U.S. Army during World War II.
In 1954, Nehru was nominated along with British Prime
Minister Clement R. Atlee for their their "work for the
peaceful settlement between Great Britain and India in 1947,"
by a Osolo professor Janes Arup Seip.
Seip again nominated the duo for their leading
statesmanship.
This year the prize conferred to the 0ffice of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Last time Nehru, as the data inform only till 1955,
was nominated by a Swiss professor Edmond Privat. No winner
was announced in 1955 and the prize money was allocated to the
Special Fund of this prize section.


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