Abstract

Nehru's India

This article presents information about the book "The Discovery of India," by Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru is a great leader of people who has had numerous periods of leisure interspersed through a long career of public activity in which to meditate, generalize, and write about the causes to which he is devoted. The purpose of the present volume is to survey the past and present of India so as to assess the country's strength and weakness and its position in the world, but not in any academic fashion. The course of action which he endeavors to indicate is at once national as constituting policy for India and individual as a directive for himself. This purpose gives the book a very personal character, since Nehru is talking about himself as well as India.