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Second Nehru ministry

Indian government headed by Jawaharlal Nehru from 1952 to 1957

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ17071528 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jawaharlal Nehru was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 15 August 1947. After first Indian general election, Nehru became the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the country and his second term started on 15 April 1952. In his ministry upon reelection, the ministers were as follows.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Second Nehru ministry” is indian government headed by Jawaharlal Nehru from 1952 to 1957. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Second, Nehru and ministry, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952-04-15. For this dossier, Second, Nehru and ministry is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “indian government headed by Jawaharlal Nehru from 1952 to 1957” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17071528. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1947 and 1952.

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This entry incorporates text from “Second Nehru ministry” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.