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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

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', was included in a reprint in and these early editions were published by John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd, London.

The edition was published by Penguin Books India, with Sonia Gandhi holding the . She also wrote the foreword to this edition, in which she encourages the reader to combine its content with Nehru's other works, Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, in order to understand "the ideas and personalities that have shaped India through the ages".[1]

Content

Nehru clarifies his aims and objectives in the preface to the first edition, as to occupy his time constructively, review past events in India and to begin the job of "self-questioning" in what is his "personal account".

He states "my object wasprimarily for my own benefit, to trace my own mental growth".[1][2] He did not target any particular audience but wrote "if I thought of an audience, it was one of my own countrymen and countrywomen. For foreign readers I would have probably written differently".[2] The book includes 68 chapters, with the first titled 'Descent from Kashmir'.

Nehru begins with explaining his ancestors migration to Delhi from Kashmir in and the subsequent settling of his family in Agra after the revolt of [1][5]

Chapter four is devoted to "Harrow and Cambridge" and the English influence on Nehru.[1][3] Written during the long illness of his wife, Kamala, Nehru's autobiography is closely centred around his marriage.[6]

In the book, he describes nationalism as "essentially an anti-feeling, and it feeds and fattens on hatred against other national groups, and especially against the foreign rulers of a subject country".[7] He is self-critical and writes “I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Perhaps my thoughts and approach to life are more akin to what is called Western than Eastern, but India clings to me, as she does to all her children, in innumerable ways.” He then writes that “I am a stranger and alien in the West. I cannot be of it.

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    • But in my own country also, sometimes I have an exile’s feeling”.[7]

    He includes an epilogue on 14 February On 4 September , five and a half months before the completion of his sentence, he was released from Almora District jail due to his wife's deteriorating health, and the following month he added a postscript whilst at Badenweiler, Schwarzwald, where she was receiving treatment.[1]

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    Hallet, working for the Home department of the Government of India at the time, was appointed to review the book, with a view to judging if the book should be banned. In his review, he reported that Nehru's inclusion of a chapter on animals in prison, was "very human",[6] and he strongly opposed any ban of the book.[3]

    According to Walter Crocker, had Nehru not been well known as India's first prime minister, he would have been famous for his autobiography.[8]

    See also

    References

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      An Autobiography (Tenth&#;ed.). New Delhi: Penguin Books India (Reprint of the Bodley Head original). ISBN&#;.

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    2. ^ abcNaik, M. K. (). "Chapter The Discovery of Nehru: A Study of Jawaharlal Nehru's Autobiography". Perspectives On Indian Poetry In English. Abhinav Publications.

      Toward freedom autobiography jawaharlal nehru planetarium online booking Add to Wants. She also wrote the foreword to this edition, in which she encourages the reader to combine its content with Nehru's other works, Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India , in order to understand "the ideas and personalities that have shaped India through the ages". Report this item. First published in under title: Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography Includes index.

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    4. ^Nehru, Jawaharlal (). Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru. Universal Digital Library. The John Day Company.
    5. ^Tharoor, Shashi (). Nehru: The Invention of India.

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    9. ^ abHolden, Philip (). Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-state. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
    10. ^ abTaseer, Aatish (4 January ).

      "Opinion | Learning to Love Nehru".

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    11. ^Shintri, Sarojini (). Chapter "Glimpses of Nehru, the Writer" in M. K. Naik's Perspectives On Indian Poetry In English, Abhinav Publications (), pp. – ISBN&#;

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