.svg)
An Autobiography (Nehru): Difference between revisions
Alter: url. URLs might have been anonymized. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by AManWithNoPlan | #UCB_webform 1778/2200
>MagicatthemovieS |
->Citation bot (Alter: url. URLs might have been anonymized. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by AManWithNoPlan | #UCB_webform 1778/2200) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Short description|Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru}} | |||
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} | {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} | ||
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}} | {{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}} | ||
| Line 31: | Line 32: | ||
Besides the postscript and a few small changes, Nehru wrote the biography between June 1934 and February 1935, and while entirely in prison.<ref name="Nehru2004">{{cite book|last1=Nehru|first1=Jawaharlal|title=An Autobiography|date=2004|publisher=Penguin Books India (Reprint of the Bodley Head original)|location=New Delhi|isbn=9780143031048|edition=Tenth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2HAgDQAAQBAJ |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref> | Besides the postscript and a few small changes, Nehru wrote the biography between June 1934 and February 1935, and while entirely in prison.<ref name="Nehru2004">{{cite book|last1=Nehru|first1=Jawaharlal|title=An Autobiography|date=2004|publisher=Penguin Books India (Reprint of the Bodley Head original)|location=New Delhi|isbn=9780143031048|edition=Tenth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2HAgDQAAQBAJ |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref> | ||
The first edition was published in 1936 and has since been through more than 12 editions and translated into more than 30 languages.<ref name=Naik1984>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ov8EOYzAg7gC&pg=PA186|title=Perspectives On Indian Poetry In English|author=Naik, M. K.|author-link=Madhukar Krishna Naik|chapter=Chapter 13. The Discovery of Nehru: A Study of Jawaharlal Nehru's Autobiography|date=1984|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=9788170171508|pages=186|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Nanda1996>{{Cite journal|last=Nanda|first=B. R.|date=1996|title=Nehru and the British |journal=[[Modern Asian Studies]]|volume=30|issue=2|pages=469–479|doi=10.1017/S0026749X00016541|issn=0026-749X|via=[[JSTOR]]}}</ref><ref name=Nehru1941>{{Cite book|url= | The first edition was published in 1936 and has since been through more than 12 editions and translated into more than 30 languages.<ref name=Naik1984>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ov8EOYzAg7gC&pg=PA186|title=Perspectives On Indian Poetry In English|author=Naik, M. K.|author-link=Madhukar Krishna Naik|chapter=Chapter 13. The Discovery of Nehru: A Study of Jawaharlal Nehru's Autobiography|date=1984|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=9788170171508|pages=186|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Nanda1996>{{Cite journal|last=Nanda|first=B. R.|date=1996|title=Nehru and the British |journal=[[Modern Asian Studies]]|volume=30|issue=2|pages=469–479|doi=10.1017/S0026749X00016541|issn=0026-749X|via=[[JSTOR]]}}</ref><ref name=Nehru1941>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/towardfreedomthe000770mbp|title=Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru|last=Nehru|first=Jawaharlal|date=1941|publisher=The John Day Company|others=Universal Digital Library}}</ref> | ||
An additional chapter titled 'Five years later', was included in a reprint in 1942 and these early editions were published by John Lane, [[The Bodley Head]] Ltd, London. The 2004 edition was published by [[Penguin Books India]], with [[Sonia Gandhi]] holding the copyright. She also wrote the foreword to this edition, in which she encourages the reader to combine its content with Nehru's other works, ''[[Glimpses of World History]]'' and ''[[The Discovery of India]]'', in order to understand "the ideas and personalities that have shaped India through the ages".<ref name="Nehru2004"/> | An additional chapter titled 'Five years later', was included in a reprint in 1942 and these early editions were published by John Lane, [[The Bodley Head]] Ltd, London. The 2004 edition was published by [[Penguin Books India]], with [[Sonia Gandhi]] holding the copyright. She also wrote the foreword to this edition, in which she encourages the reader to combine its content with Nehru's other works, ''[[Glimpses of World History]]'' and ''[[The Discovery of India]]'', in order to understand "the ideas and personalities that have shaped India through the ages".<ref name="Nehru2004"/> | ||
| Line 39: | Line 40: | ||
The book includes 68 chapters, with the first titled 'Descent from Kashmir'. Nehru begins with explaining his ancestors migration to Delhi from [[Kashmir]] in 1716 and the subsequent settling of his family in [[Agra]] after the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|revolt of 1857]].<ref name="Nehru2004"/><ref name="Tharoor">Tharoor, Shashi (2008). ''Nehru: The Invention of India''. Arcade Publishing, Mumbai. {{isbn|1611454115}}</ref> | The book includes 68 chapters, with the first titled 'Descent from Kashmir'. Nehru begins with explaining his ancestors migration to Delhi from [[Kashmir]] in 1716 and the subsequent settling of his family in [[Agra]] after the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|revolt of 1857]].<ref name="Nehru2004"/><ref name="Tharoor">Tharoor, Shashi (2008). ''Nehru: The Invention of India''. Arcade Publishing, Mumbai. {{isbn|1611454115}}</ref> | ||
Chapter four is devoted to "Harrow and Cambridge" and the English influence on Nehru.<ref name="Nehru2004"/><ref name=Nanda1996/> Written during the long illness of his wife, [[Kamala Nehru|Kamala]], Nehru's autobiography is closely centred around his marriage.<ref name=Holden2008>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IUFuRWZOS3EC | Chapter four is devoted to "Harrow and Cambridge" and the English influence on Nehru.<ref name="Nehru2004"/><ref name=Nanda1996/> Written during the long illness of his wife, [[Kamala Nehru|Kamala]], Nehru's autobiography is closely centred around his marriage.<ref name=Holden2008>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IUFuRWZOS3EC&dq=autobiography+nehru&pg=PA113|title=Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-state|last=Holden|first=Philip|date=2008|publisher=[[The University of Wisconsin Press]]|isbn=978-0299226107|location=Wisconsin|pages=113|language=en}}</ref> | ||
In the book, he describes [[nationalism]] as "essentially an anti-feeling, and it feeds and fattens on hatred against other national groups, and especially against the foreign rulers of a subject country".<ref name="Taseer">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/opinion/jawaharlal-nehru-india-love.html|title=Opinion {{!}} Learning to Love Nehru|last=Taseer|first=Aatish|date=2018-01-04|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=6 November 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He is self-critical and writes “I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. Perhaps my thoughts and approach to life are more akin to what is called Western than Eastern, but India clings to me, as she does to all her children, in innumerable ways.” He then writes that “I am a stranger and alien in the West. I cannot be of it. But in my own country also, sometimes I have an exile’s feeling”.<ref name="Taseer"/> | In the book, he describes [[nationalism]] as "essentially an anti-feeling, and it feeds and fattens on hatred against other national groups, and especially against the foreign rulers of a subject country".<ref name="Taseer">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/opinion/jawaharlal-nehru-india-love.html|title=Opinion {{!}} Learning to Love Nehru|last=Taseer|first=Aatish|date=2018-01-04|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=6 November 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He is self-critical and writes “I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. Perhaps my thoughts and approach to life are more akin to what is called Western than Eastern, but India clings to me, as she does to all her children, in innumerable ways.” He then writes that “I am a stranger and alien in the West. I cannot be of it. But in my own country also, sometimes I have an exile’s feeling”.<ref name="Taseer"/> | ||