Jawaharlal Nehru
The Discovery of India is a notable work by Jawaharlal Nehru, one of three significant titles he produced alongside Glimpses of World History and Letters from a Father to His Daughter.
Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Prayagraj. He received his early education at Harrow School, then studied at Trinity College, and subsequently trained as a barrister at the City Law School. These years of education formed the professional grounding from which he entered public life, working as a politician, freedom fighter, trade unionist, and writer. He conducted his work in both English and Hindi, and he served as head of government in India.
Alongside his political career, Nehru maintained a sustained commitment to writing and autobiography. His three notable works — Letters from a Father to His Daughter, Glimpses of World History, and The Discovery of India — reflect his activity as both an autobiographer and a writer. He received the Bharat Ratna and the Bintang Jasa, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Keiō University. His citizenship moved across successive political formations: he was a citizen of the British Raj, then of the Dominion of India, and then of India itself.
Nehru died on 27 May 1964 in New Delhi. The Discovery of India remains among the concrete works he left as part of a writing career carried on in parallel with his roles as barrister, politician, and freedom fighter.
Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru's insights on:
At the stroke of a midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism, the way you play it is free will.
The future is not one of ease or resting but one of incessant striving so that we may fulfill the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today.
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction
I had little patience with leftist groups in India, spending much of their energy in mutual conflict and recrimination over fine points of doctrine which did not interest me at all. Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine.
I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.
She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.
Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine. The.