Jawaharlal nehru autobiography book name
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Jawaharlal Nehru : An Autobiography
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, was a great personality who also wrote a number of inspiring and knowledgeable books. Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography is his autobiographical work which he penned down between the years of and while he was in prison. In this book, Nehru explores his ideologies and the events in his life that led him to the situation he was positioned in when he wrote this book.
The practice of civil disobedience that Nehru had taken up, is discussed by him terms of his belief in the movement. The author starts off the book with an introduction to his ancestral history, where he mentions that his predecessors had to run away from Kashmir to settle elsewhere.
Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography also paints a vivid picture of the pre-independence era in India, where the air of dissension was at an all time high. The book depicts the political realisation of an upcoming giant of a nation and the bat
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An Autobiography (Nehru)
Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru
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An Autobiography, also known as Toward Freedom (), is an autobiographical book written by Jawaharlal Nehru while he was in prison between June and February , and before he became the first Prime Minister of India.
The first edition was published in by John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd, London, and has since been through more than 12 editions and translated into more than 30 languages. It has 68 chapters over pages and is published by Penguin Books India.
Publication
[edit]Besides the postscript and a few small changes, Nehru wrote the biography between June and February , and while entirely in prison.[1]
The first edition was published in and has since been through more than 12 editions and translated into more than 30 languages.[2][3][4]
An additional chapter titled 'Five years later',