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The Discovery Of India
Hardcover
by Jawaharlal Nehru
- Publisher : Penguin
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 2025
- ISBN-10 : 0
- ISBN-13 : 9780143474562
- Weight : 0.5
- Dimensions : 3.16 x 13.5 x 21.6 cm
The Discovery Of India
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4.1 rating based on 8,581 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0143474561
ISBN-13: 9780143474562
Goodreads: 242335744
Author(s): Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 3/20/2025
Written over five months when Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned in the Ahmadnagar Fort, The Discovery of India has acquired the status of a classic since it was first published in 1946. Nehru’s brilliant intellect, deep humanity and lucid style make The Discovery of India essential reading for anyone interested in India―both its past and its present.
In this work of prodigious scope and scholarship, one of the greatest figures of Indian history unfolds the panorama of the country’s rich and complex past, from prehistory to the last years of British colonial rule. Analysing texts like the Vedas and the Arthashastra, and personalities like the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru brings alive an ancient culture that has seen the flowering of the world’s great traditions of philosophy, science and art, and almost all its major religions
4.1 rating based on 8,581 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0143474561
ISBN-13: 9780143474562
Goodreads: 242335744
Author(s): Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 3/20/2025
Written over five months when Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned in the Ahmadnagar Fort, The Discovery of India has acquired the status of a classic since it was first published in 1946. Nehru’s brilliant intellect, deep humanity and lucid style make The Discovery of India essential reading for anyone interested in India―both its past and its present.
In this work of prodigious scope and scholarship, one of the greatest figures of Indian history unfolds the panorama of the country’s rich and complex past, from prehistory to the last years of British colonial rule. Analysing texts like the Vedas and the Arthashastra, and personalities like the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru brings alive an ancient culture that has seen the flowering of the world’s great traditions of philosophy, science and art, and almost all its major religions






