Autobiography of nehru and chaudhuri

Autobiography of nehru and chaudhuri full Thus, his aim is not to give a picture of the isolated individual but to place him in the cultural context which is conditioned by the historical forces. There are iconoclastic portraits of Gandhi, Nehru and Mountbatten, a touching one of Tagore and a shrewd appraisal of nationalist leader Subhas Bose whose hatred of British rule threw him into the arms of Hitler. Thus Nehru and Chaudhuri come from diametrically opposed backgrounds. Sign up Log in.

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.

Autobiography of nehru in hindi Nehru had learnt the English language through the Englishmen and had a facility of language envied by the Britishers themselves, partly because of his romantic temperament and partly because of the influence of Persian and Urdu on his mind. Click here to sign up. He states "my object was There are iconoclastic portraits of Gandhi, Nehru and Mountbatten, a touching one of Tagore and a shrewd appraisal of nationalist leader Subhas Bose whose hatred of British rule threw him into the arms of Hitler.

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. 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]

Responses

M.G.

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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