Nehru family- Truth you should know about Nehru family

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Nehru family- Truth you should know about Nehru family Nehru family started with the Mughal man named Ghiyasuddin Ghazi. He was from City Kotwal i.e. police officer of Delhi prior to the uprising of the year 1857, under the Mughal rule. After capturing Delhi in the year 1857, the year of the mutiny, the British were slaughtering all Mughals everywhere. Britishers made a thorough search and killed every Mughal so that there was no future claimant to the throne of Delhi. Thus, he adopted ‘Nehru’ as his family name. The Nehru family is a very important and well-known name in Indian political history. Its political involvement has been seen around the Indian National Congress and many individuals of the family have administered over the Congress political party since the independence of India. The Nehru family is also often referred to as the Nehru-Gandhi family since the Gandhi family name was derived from Feroze Gandhi whom Indira Priyadarshini Nehru got married to and then decided to change her name. Right from the very beginning, the Nehru family has been popular but still many get confused about its hierarchy or family tree structure. The following is the ​Nehru Family tree​:


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