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This volume captures Nehru’s reflections during a period of growing global influence and domestic optimism. From advocating non-alignment at international forums to addressing the successes and challenges of India’s economic plans, these letters offer a glimpse into his vision for a young nation finding its footing in a changing world.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: Apr/2025
ISBN: 9780143474746
Length : 736 Pages
MRP : ₹699.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Published:
ISBN:
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: Apr/2025
ISBN:
Length : 736 Pages
MRP : ₹699.00
This volume captures Nehru’s reflections during a period of growing global influence and domestic optimism. From advocating non-alignment at international forums to addressing the successes and challenges of India’s economic plans, these letters offer a glimpse into his vision for a young nation finding its footing in a changing world.
Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 at Allahabad and educated in England, at Harrow and Cambridge. In 1912, Nehru returned home to play a central role in India’s struggle for freedom from British colonial rule, and then, as prime minister of independent India for seventeen years, went on to shape the nation’s future as a modern, secular and democratic state. He died in office on 27 May 1964. Visionary and idealist, scholar and statesman of international stature, Nehru was also an outstanding writer. His three most renowned books—An Autobiography, Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India—have acquired the status of classics, and are all published by Penguin.
There is no dearth of writing on Jawaharlal Nehru. More will always be less when accounting for his contribution to the country, which starts from before the inception of India, the idea of India. A man who fought imperialism, colonialism, and strove for the idea of a nation propped by secularism, diversity and communal camaraderie […]
