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The letters, written in a span of thirty months when Nehru was imprisoned in various places by the British, starts off with one he sends to his daughter on her birthday. He says he is sad about not being able to send her any "material" gift from prison, so he would try to give her something he can "afford", a series of letters from his heart.

Written from prison, where he had no recourse to reference books or a library but his personal notes, Glimpses of World History contains the history of humankind from 6000 BC to the time of writing of the book. It covers the rise and fall of great empires and civilizations from Greece and Rome to China and West Asia; great figures such as Ashoka and Genghis Khan, Gandhi and Lenin; wars and revolutions, democracies and dictatorships.

He wrote about many cultures throughout the globe in detail because, as he himself said, he didn't like the way history was taught in schools where it was confined to the history of a single country and that too narrow, and he wanted his daughter Priyadarshini to know why people did what they did. It was possible only through knowing the history of the whole world.

The letters are written in informal language, with the contemporary and personal events too are mentioned. They reflect the world view of Nehru, and his grasp of history. It could be considered as one of the first attempts at historiography from a non-Eurocentric angle.

The book is comparable to The Outline of History by H. G. Wells. The New York Times described it as

. . . one of the most remarkable books ever written . . . Nehru makes even H.G.Wells seem singularly insular . . . One is awed by the breadth of Nehru's culture.([1])]]> 89095 3.89 189 24 2005 644478 0670058165 9780670058167 3 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/644478.Letters_from_a_Father_to_His_Daughter 3.52 23 89095 3.89 189 24 2004 322939 0370313135 9780370313139 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/322939.Jawaharlal_Nehru_an_autobiography_With_musings_on_recent_events_in_India 3.78 9 89095 3.89 189 24 0 175709 0195623606 9780195623604 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175709.Glimpses_of_World_History 4.50 4 89095 3.89 189 24 1990 2167927 8170110793 9788170110798 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2167927.Letters_from_a_Father_to_His_Daughter 4.00 3 89095 3.89 189 24 1987 298868 0195623967 9780195623963 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/298868.Glimpses_of_World_History_Centenary_edition 3.50 2 89095 3.89 189 24 1989 7143788 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1258219627m/7143788.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1258219627s/7143788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7143788-letters-from-a-father-to-his-daughter 5.00 1 89095 3.89 189 24 7172357 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7172357-toward-freedom 4.00 1
From the Publisher's Forward: "Nehru is today the great democrat of the world. Not Churchill, not Roosevelt, not Chiang Kai-shek, in a sense not even Gandhi, stands as firm as Nehru does for government by the consent of the people and for the integrity of the individual...[t]he goal of India, as he states it, is "a united, free, democratic country, closely associated in a world federation with other free nations."

From the Author's Preface to the Original Edition: "This book was written entirely in prison, except for the postscript and certain minor changes, from June, 1934, to February, 1935. The primary object in writing these pages was to occupy myself with a definite task, so necessary in the long solitudes of jail life, as well as to review past events in India, with which I had been connected, to enable myself to think clearly about them...[a]nd so this "autobiographical narrative" remains a sketchy, personal, and incomplete account of the past, verging on the present, but cautiously avoiding contact with it."]]> 89095 3.89 189 24 1941 6539181 0210336137 9780210336137 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6539181-bunch-of-old-letters 4.00 1 89095 3.89 189 24 1960