page_title: First Nehru ministry
section_title: Cabinet members
hierarchical_section_title: First Nehru ministry / Cabinet members
caption_attribution_description: English: Lord Mountbatten swears in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of free India at the ceremony held at 8.30 a.m. on August 15, 1947.
context_page_description: After independence, on 15 August 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru assumed office as the first Prime Minister of India and chose fifteen ministers to form the First Nehru ministry.
context_section_description: There were members from Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Parsi communities represented in India's first ministry. There were two members from the Dalit community represented as well. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was the only female Cabinet minister. The following is a list of the ministers in the first Cabinet.
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  Died in office
  Resigned
caption: Lord Mountbatten swears in Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of India on 15 August 1947.
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