Jawaharlal Nehru was born into one of India's wealthiest families, educated at Harrow and Cambridge, and groomed for a life of colonial privilege. Instead, he chose revolution — joining Gandhi's independence movement, spending years in British prisons, and emerging as the architect of the world's largest democracy.

This episode traces Nehru from aristocratic Anglophile to socialist nation-builder, examining how his vision of secular, democratic India shaped the country's institutions, his fractured relationship with Pakistan's founders, and the military humiliation by China that haunted his final years.

• Nehru's privileged upbringing and the radicalization that turned him against British rule
• Years of imprisonment and his evolving vision for an independent, secular India
• The agony of Partition and Nehru's relations ...