After returning to India in August 1912, Nehru enrolled himself as an advocate of the Allahabad High Court. However, he did not enjoy practising law and soon began to be interested in India’s freedom movement.
He attended an annual session of the Indian National Congress in Patna and collected funds for the civil rights campaigners led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1913. He campaigned against indentured labour and other such discriminations faced by Indians in the British colonies.
In 1917, Nehru joined the All India Home Rule League, an organization devoted to obtaining self-government within the British Empire. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919, in which many Indians were killed and more than a thousand injured, cemented Nehru’s resolve to free India from British rule.
During the Non-cooperation Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru was arrested for the first time. He would go on to spend more than nine years in prison in the coming two and a half decades.
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