One reason for Jawaharlal’s growing ideological distance from Gandhi was his attraction to socialism and communism. His intellectual conversion to the Marxist way of looking at history and to socialism was articulated in the articles he wrote around this time and in the statements that he made; the most coherent evidence of this is available, however, in the letters that he wrote to his daughter Indira from prison. These letters were brought together in a book called Glimpses of World History. In two of these letters Jawaharlal explicated to his daughter the basic tenets of Marxism and
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