Jawaharlal Nehru Books

I was born into comfort and privilege in 1889, in Allahabad, a city that often seemed a curious blend of tradition and colonial modernity. My father, Motilal Nehru, was a formidable figure—a self-made lawyer who had risen to prominence in British India, embodying at once admiration for Western effic...

From An Autobiography

Leaving India for England was like stepping from one world into another. At Harrow, and later at Trinity College, Cambridge, I immersed myself in the intellectual ferment of early twentieth-century Britain. There I discovered the allure of science, rationalism, and modern political thought. The Engl...

From An Autobiography

To understand India is to begin at the dawn of human consciousness itself. The story does not start with empires or kings but with the slow unfolding of civilization along the rivers and plains of this vast land. The earliest traces — stone tools, cave paintings, and the remains of agricultural sett...

From The Discovery Of India

Out of the ferment of that ancient world arose India's great spiritual revolutions — Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Each of them, in its own manner, tried to answer the same fundamental question: how shall man live, and what is the meaning of existence? Hindu philosophy evolved not as a single cre...

From The Discovery Of India