Nehru–Gandhi family tree
Five generations from Motilal Nehru to Rahul and Priyanka, with the Ghandys, Kauls, Hutheesings and Pandits. The Gandhi name came from Feroze, not from Mahatma Gandhi.
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- 1795–2014
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India’s prime ministers from this family
- 1Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 – 1964)
- 2Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984)
- 3Rajiv Gandhi (1944 – 1991)
Who is related to whom in the Nehru–Gandhi family
How are Rahul Gandhi and Varun Gandhi related?
Varun Gandhi is Rahul Gandhi’s first cousin (chachera bhai in Hindi): their fathers were brothers. Both descend from Feroze Gandhi and Indira Gandhi.
How is Priyanka Gandhi related to Varun Gandhi?
Varun Gandhi is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s first cousin (chachera bhai in Hindi): their fathers were brothers. Both descend from Feroze Gandhi and Indira Gandhi.
How is Rahul Gandhi related to Jawaharlal Nehru?
Jawaharlal Nehru is Rahul Gandhi’s paternal great-grandfather (pardada in Hindi).
Is Rahul Gandhi related to Feroze Gandhi?
Feroze Gandhi is Rahul Gandhi’s paternal grandfather (dada in Hindi).
How are Sonia Gandhi and Maneka Gandhi related?
Maneka Gandhi is Sonia Gandhi’s husband’s brother’s wife (devrani in Hindi).
How is Indira Gandhi related to Nayantara Sahgal?
Nayantara Sahgal is Indira Gandhi’s first cousin (phupheri behen in Hindi): Jawaharlal and Vijaya Lakshmi were brother and sister. Both descend from Motilal Nehru and Swarup Rani Nehru.
How is Robert Vadra related to Rahul Gandhi?
Rahul Gandhi is Robert Vadra’s brother-in-law (saala in Hindi).
How is Maneka Gandhi related to Indira Gandhi?
Indira Gandhi is Maneka Gandhi’s mother-in-law (saas in Hindi).
How was Feroze Gandhi related to Jawaharlal Nehru?
Jawaharlal Nehru is Feroze Gandhi’s father-in-law (sasur in Hindi).
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The Nehru–Gandhi family, generation by generation
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- Lakshmi Narayan Nehru (1795 – ?): A clerk for the East India Company in Delhi; the earliest of the family's Delhi generations in this tree.
- Gangadhar Nehru (1827 – 1861): The last kotwal, or police chief, of Delhi before the 1857 uprising. He died in 1861, months before his youngest son Motilal was born.
- Bansi Dhar Nehru
- Gangadhar Nehru also married Indrani Nehru: Gangadhar's wife and Motilal's mother; Motilal was born after his father's death.
- Nandlal Nehru (1845 – 1887): Motilal's elder brother: first a chief minister of the Khetri estate, then a lawyer in Agra and Allahabad who raised and trained Motilal.
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- Shamlal Nehru (1879 – 1934): Nandlal's son and Jawaharlal's first cousin. · married Uma Nehru (1884 – 1963): Independence activist and politician who married Shamlal Nehru.
- Shyam Kumari Khan (1904 – 1980): Lawyer, freedom fighter and Rajya Sabha member from 1963 to 1968.
- Anand Kumar Nehru (1908 – 1947): Shamlal and Uma's son and father of Arun Nehru.
- Arun Nehru (1944 – 2013): Minister in the Union government in the 1980s, from Nandlal Nehru's branch of the family.
- Brijlal Nehru (1884 – 1964): Nandlal's son and Motilal's nephew; finance minister of Jammu and Kashmir under Maharaja Hari Singh. · married Rameshwari Nehru (1886 – 1966): Wife of Brijlal Nehru; a journalist and social worker who helped found the All India Women's Conference.
- Braj Kumar Nehru (1909 – 2001): Diplomat: ambassador to the United States, High Commissioner in London and later a state governor, and adviser to Indira Gandhi, his second cousin. · married Fori Nehru (1908 – 2017): Wife of B. K. Nehru, known as Fori; she lived to over a hundred.
- Balwant Kumar Nehru (1916 – 1996): Engineer and company executive who rose to deputy chairman of ITC; B. K. Nehru's younger brother.
- Sunil Nehru (b. 1946)
- Nikhil Nehru (b. 1948)
- Vikram Nehru (b. 1952)
- Mohanlal Nehru
- Ratan Kumar Nehru (1902 – 1981): Civil servant and diplomat, a grandson of Nandlal Nehru and a first cousin once removed of Jawaharlal.
- Motilal Nehru (1861 – 1931): Allahabad lawyer, twice president of the Congress and head of the family. His house, Anand Bhavan, became a centre of the freedom movement. · married Swarup Rani Nehru (1868 – 1938): Motilal's wife, who joined the civil disobedience campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 – 1964): India's first prime minister, from 1947 until his death in 1964. · married Kamala Nehru (1899 – 1936): Jawaharlal's wife, a Congress worker and the mother of Indira. She died of tuberculosis in Switzerland.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984): India's first woman prime minister. Born a Nehru, she took the Gandhi name by marrying Feroze; the Mahatma is no relation. · married Feroze Gandhi (1912 – 1960): Parsi journalist and MP, born in Bombay as Feroze Ghandy. The family's Gandhi surname comes from him, not from Mahatma Gandhi.
- Rajiv Gandhi (1944 – 1991): Prime minister from 1984 after his mother's assassination; he was himself assassinated in 1991. · married Sonia Gandhi (b. 1946): Born in Italy, she married Rajiv in 1968 and later led the Congress for more than two decades.
- Rahul Gandhi (b. 1970): Congress leader, MP and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (b. 1972): Congress general secretary and MP for Wayanad; married to Robert Vadra since 1997. · married Robert Vadra (b. 1969): Businessman, married to Priyanka since 1997.
- Raihan Vadra (b. 2000)
- Miraya Vadra (b. 2002)
- Sanjay Gandhi (1946 – 1980): Indira's younger son and, for a time, her expected successor. He died in a plane crash in 1980. · married Maneka Gandhi (b. 1956): Married Sanjay in 1974 and was widowed six years later. An animal-rights campaigner and long-serving MP.
- Varun Gandhi (b. 1980): BJP politician, son of Sanjay and Maneka. He is a first cousin of Rahul and Priyanka but belongs to a different party. · married Yamini Gandhi
- Anasuya Gandhi (b. 2014)
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900 – 1990): Freedom fighter and diplomat: ambassador to the Soviet Union and the United States, and the first woman to preside over the UN General Assembly. · married Ranjit Sitaram Pandit (1893 – 1944): Barrister and scholar who translated Kalhana's Rajatarangini into English. He married Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru in 1921 and died in 1944.
- Nayantara Sahgal (b. 1927): Novelist writing in English, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and first cousin of Indira Gandhi.
- Gita Sahgal (b. c.1956): Writer, film-maker and human-rights campaigner, Nayantara Sahgal's daughter.
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- Krishna Hutheesing (1907 – 1967): Writer whose books record life inside the Nehru household, including a portrait of her niece Indira. · married Gunottam Hutheesing (1906 – 1991): Krishna's husband, from an Ahmedabad Jain family; a writer who backed the founding of the Swatantra Party in 1959.
- Harsha Hutheesing (1935 – 1991): Son of Krishna and Raja Hutheesing.
- Ajit Hutheesing (1936 – 2017): Son of Krishna and Raja Hutheesing. · married Helen Armstrong (1943 – 2006)
- Ajit Hutheesing’s children whose other parent the sources don’t name:
- Ravi Hutheesing (b. 1971)
Also in this tree, through marriage
- Jawaharmal Kaul (1877 – 1926): Kamala Nehru's father.
- Kailas Nath Kaul (1905 – 1983): Kamala Nehru's brother and a botanist who founded the National Botanical Research Institute in Lucknow.
- Sheila Kaul (1915 – 2015): Kailas Nath Kaul's wife, a Congress politician and minister, and Indira Gandhi's aunt by marriage.
- Deepa Kaul (b. 1944): Daughter of Kailas Nath and Sheila Kaul; a social worker and former Congress minister.
- Purushottam Hutheesing
- Leila Hutheesing
- Niranjan Nath Hukku
- Kailas Hukku
- Ratimai Ghandy
- Jehangir Faredoon Ghandy
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Photo credits
The pictures on the cards are from Wikimedia Commons, shown at thumbnail size under the licence named on each file. Pictures of living people appear only for public figures (politicians, royals, and film, music and sport people with no personality-rights order or suit in India we know of). Anyone else, and anyone under 18, shows initials.
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- Motilal Nehru: photo by Original uploader was Rudolf 1922 at sv.wikipedia, Public domain
- Swarup Rani Nehru: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Rameshwari Nehru: photo by India Post, Government of India, GODL-India
- Jawaharlal Nehru: photo by Keystone View Company/FPG, Public domain
- Ranjit Sitaram Pandit: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Kamala Nehru: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: photo by Bassano, Public domain
- Ratan Kumar Nehru: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Shyam Kumari Khan: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Kailas Nath Kaul: photo by Arunpwahi, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Krishna Hutheesing: photo by Ahutheesing, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fori Nehru: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Braj Kumar Nehru: photo by White House photographer Robert Knudsen, Public domain
- Feroze Gandhi: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Sheila Kaul: photo by Government of India, GODL-India
- Indira Gandhi: photo by Prime Minister's Office, GODL-India
- Ajit Hutheesing: photo by DebbieHows at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Helen Armstrong: photo by Debbie Howser: DebbieHows at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Rajiv Gandhi: photo by Bart Molendijk / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Arun Nehru: photo by Parliament of India, Lok Sabha, GODL-India
- Sonia Gandhi: photo by U.S. Department of State, Public domain
- Sanjay Gandhi: photo by India Post, Government of India, GODL-India
- Maneka Gandhi: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Rahul Gandhi: photo by Himanshu Arya Khowal, CC BY 4.0
- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra: photo by The Times of India, CC BY 3.0
- Varun Gandhi: photo by PeggyPeppy, CC BY-SA 4.0
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