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Gives an understanding of the glorious intellectual and spiritual tradition of (a) great country.' — Albert EinsteinWritten over five months when Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned in the Ahmadnagar Fort, The Discovery of India has acquired the status of a classic since it was first published in ... More

Through all its details there runs a deep current of humanity which overpasses the tangles of facts and leads us to the person who is greater than his deeds and truer than his surroundings.' — Rabindranath Tagore Jawaharlal Nehru's life was closely intertwined with the history and destiny ... More

`I am going to write you short accounts of the story of our earth and the many countries, great and small, into which it is divided…I hope [these] will make you think of the world as a whole and of other people in it as our brothers and sisters . . .' —Jawaharlal NehruWhen Indira Gandhi was ... More

On New Year's Day, 1931, Jawaharlal Nehru began a remarkable series of letters on the history of the world to his daughter, Indira, then thirteen years old. Over the next thirty months, Nehru wrote nearly two hundred letters in this series, which were later published as Glimpses of World History... More

This volume covers the short period from 1st December 1956 to 21st February 1957.... More

Volume 37 in this continuing series covers a period of particular importance in the development of Indian democracy, the second general elections, and India's foreign policy.... More