What did Nehru study at Cambridge University?

After completing school at Harrow, Nehru went to Trinity College, Cambridge where he earned an honours degree in natural sciences. He studied chemistry, geology and physics (later substituted by botany as Nehru was weak in mathematics). He also studied politics, economics, history and literature and was exposed to the works of Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, John Maynard Keynes and Bertrand Russell among others.

On the whole, Nehru enjoyed his stay at Cambridge. The liberal atmosphere of the University encouraged him to take up many non-academic activities. He passed the final Cambridge degree examinations in 1910 and obtained a second class. Following Cambridge, Nehru moved to London and studied law at the Inner Temple Inn.

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