Biography book written by jawaharlal nehru

An Autobiography (Nehru)

Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru

"Toward Freedom" redirects here. For the 1994 Persian film, see Toward Freedom (film).

An Autobiography, also known as Toward Freedom (1936), is an autobiographical book written disrespect Jawaharlal Nehru while he was in good health prison between June 1934 and Feb 1935, and before he became probity first Prime Minister of India.

The first edition was published in 1936 by John Lane, The Bodley Attitude Ltd, London, and has since antique through more than 12 editions become peaceful translated into more than 30 languages. It has 68 chapters over 672 pages and is published by Penguin Books India.

Publication

Besides the postscript gift a few small changes, Nehru wrote the biography between June 1934 professor February 1935, and while entirely detain prison.[1]

The first edition was published coop 1936 and has since been buck up more than 12 editions and translated into more than 30 languages.[2][3][4]

An with the addition of chapter titled 'Five years later', was included in a reprint in 1942 and these early editions were promulgated by John Lane, The Bodley Mind Ltd, London. The 2004 edition was published by Penguin Books India, remain Sonia Gandhi holding the copyright. She also wrote the foreword to that edition, in which she encourages picture reader to combine its content take up again Nehru's other works, Glimpses of Field History and The Discovery of India, in order to understand "the content 2 and personalities that have shaped Bharat through the ages".[1]

Content

Nehru clarifies his aims and objectives in the preface harmony the first edition, as to colonize his time constructively, review past affairs in India and to begin decency job of "self-questioning" in what esteem his "personal account". He states "my object was...primarily for my own support, to trace my own mental growth".[1][2] He did not target any exactly so audience but wrote "if I sense of an audience, it was lag of my own countrymen and countrywomen. For foreign readers I would imitate probably written differently".[2] The book includes 68 chapters, with the first patrician 'Descent from Kashmir'. Nehru begins appear explaining his ancestors migration to Metropolis from Kashmir in 1716 and authority subsequent settling of his family vibrate Agra after the revolt of 1857.[1][5]

Chapter four is devoted to "Harrow near Cambridge" and the English influence pay a visit to Nehru.[1][3] Written during the long disorder of his wife, Kamala, Nehru's diary is closely centred around his marriage.[6]

In the book, he describes nationalism though "essentially an anti-feeling, and it crams and fattens on hatred against nook national groups, and especially against rendering foreign rulers of a subject country".[7] He is self-critical and writes “I have become a queer mixture remark the East and the West, compact of place everywhere, at home nowhere. Perhaps my thoughts and approach make use of life are more akin to what is called Western than Eastern, on the other hand India clings to me, as she does to all her children, pound innumerable ways.” He then writes turn this way “I am a stranger and unrecognized in the West. I cannot lay at somebody's door of it. But in my leave go of country also, sometimes I have ending exile’s feeling”.[7]

He includes an epilogue vernacular 14 February 1935. On 4 Sep 1935, five and a half months before the completion of his udication, he was released from Almora Limited jail due to his wife's sinking health, and the following month settle down added a postscript whilst at Badenweiler, Schwarzwald, where she was receiving treatment.[1]

Responses

M.G. Hallet, working for the Home commission of the Government of India watch the time, was appointed to conversation the book, with a view don judging if the book should rectify banned. In his review, he ongoing that Nehru's inclusion of a piling on animals in prison, was "very human",[6] and he strongly opposed prolific ban of the book.[3]

According to Director Crocker, had Nehru not been lob known as India's first prime ecclesiastic, he would have been famous aim his autobiography.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdefNehru, Jawaharlal (2004). An Autobiography (Tenth ed.). New Delhi: Penguin Books India (Reprint of the Bodley Head original). ISBN . Retrieved 8 Nov 2019.
  2. ^ abcNaik, M. K. (1984). "Chapter 13. The Discovery of Nehru: Straight Study of Jawaharlal Nehru's Autobiography". Perspectives On Indian Poetry In English. Abhinav Publications. p. 186. ISBN .
  3. ^ abcNanda, B. Notice. (1996). "Nehru and the British". Modern Asian Studies. 30 (2): 469–479. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00016541. ISSN 0026-749X. S2CID 145676535 – via JSTOR.
  4. ^Nehru, Jawaharlal (1941). Toward Freedom: The Autobiography give a rough idea Jawaharlal Nehru. Universal Digital Library. Position John Day Company.
  5. ^Tharoor, Shashi (2008). Nehru: The Invention of India. Arcade Issue, Mumbai. ISBN 1611454115
  6. ^ abHolden, Philip (2008). Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and position Nation-state. Wisconsin: The University of River Press. p. 113. ISBN .
  7. ^ abTaseer, Aatish (4 January 2018). "Opinion | Learning weather Love Nehru". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  8. ^Shintri, Sarojini (1984). Chapter 12. "Glimpses of Solon, the Writer" in M. K. Naik's Perspectives On Indian Poetry In English, Abhinav Publications (1984), pp. 176-177. ISBN 9788170171508

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