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<div>In his autobiography, he analysed Abrahamic and Indian religions[298][299] and their impact on India. He wanted to model India as a secular country; his secularist policies remain a subject of debate.[300][301]</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>jawaharlal nehru biography pdf download</div><div></div><div>DOWNLOAD: https://t.co/iZEVKT3pr9 </div><div></div><div></div><div>Nehru was a prolific writer in English who wrote The Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History, An Autobiography (released in the United States as "Toward Freedom,") and Letters from a Father to His Daughter, all written in jail.[351] Letters comprised 30 letters written to his daughter Indira Priyadarshani Nehru (later Gandhi) who was then 10 years old and studying at a boarding school in Mussoorie. It attempted to instruct her about natural history and world civilisations.[352]</div><div></div><div></div><div>Nehru's books have been widely read.[353][354] An Autobiography, in particular, has been critically acclaimed. John Gunther, writing in Inside Asia, contrasted it with Gandhi's autobiography:</div><div></div><div></div><div>Nehru's books were not scholarly, nor were they intended to be. He was not a trained historian, but his feel for the flow of events and his capacity to weave together a wide range of knowledge in a meaningful pattern give to his books qualities of a high order. In these works, he also revealed a sensitive literary style. ... Glimpses of World History is the most illuminating on Nehru as an intellectual. The first of the trilogy, Glimpses, was a series of thinly connected sketches of the story of mankind in the form of letters to his teenage daughter, Indira, later prime minister of India. ... Despite its polemical character in many sections and its shortcomings as an impartial history, Glimpses is a work of great artistic value, a worthy precursor of his noble and magnanimous Autobiography.[356]</div><div></div><div></div><div>It is to his years in prison that we owe his three main books, ... Nehru's writings illustrate a cerebral life, and a power of self-discipline, altogether out of the ordinary. Words by the million bubbled up out of his fullness of mind and spirit. Had he never been prime minister of India he would have been famous as the author of the Autobiography and the autobiographical parts of The Discovery of India. An Autobiography, at least with some excisions here and there, is likely to be read for generations. ... There are, for instance, the characteristic touches of truism and anticlimax, strange in a man who could both think and, at his best, write so well ...[357]</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>This first volume inaugurates what is very much an official biography. The author was Director of the Historical Division of the Ministry of External Affairs under his hero, and was granted access to personal papers by his hero's daughter and dynastic heir. It is not a book that deals in complexities, political or personal.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This chapter considers Jawaharlal Nehru's autobiographies An Autobiography (1936) and The Discovery of India (1946) as at once nation- and self-making books. It suggests that the two books worked together to exert a shaping influence on the postcolonial world. In his autobiographies, Nehru (1889-1964) mobilized his readers to think of themselves as citizens and also supplied them with a new independent temporality with which to identify. As such, Nehru's two books became icons and models for the leader's (auto)biography across the postcolonial world.</div><div></div><div> 7c6cff6d22</div>
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