Ratan Kumar Nehru

Ratan Kumar Nehru was born in 1902 at a time when the Nehru family was yet unknown to the public and the surname had no social or political cache. However, the Nehrus were an educated, affluent and influential family belonging to the high-caste Kashmiri Brahmin community. Ratan Kumar's father, Mohanlal Nehru, was the son of Nandlal Nehru, who was the Diwan (First Minister) of the princely state of Khetri in present-day Rajasthan. Nandlal's younger brother, Motilal Nehru, was at that time an affluent barrister with a well-established practise at the Allahabad High Court. Motilal had been a posthumous child, and has been raised by Nandlal at his expense in his household. Motilal's son Jawaharlal, future prime minister of India, was therefore always deferential not only towards his much older uncle Nandlal but also towards his cousin Mohanlal, father of Ratan Kumar. Ratan Kumar Nehru was thus a first-cousin-once-removed of Jawaharlal Nehru.

R. K. Nehru He was sent as ambassador to several countries in the 1950s and 1960s.[1] In 1952, soon ater Jawaharlal Nehru was elected as the prime minister of independent India, he appointed R. K. Nehru as the Foreign Secretary of India. He was only the second person to hold this position, and he remained in that office for three years, until 1955. During 1955-58, he was the Indian ambassador to China[2] and to the United Arab Republic during 1958-60.[3][4]