Bibliography
Nehru wrote voluminously, especially while in prison; his notable works include Glimpses of World History (1936), comprising letters to his daughter (Indira Gandhi), and The Discovery of India (1946). See also his autobiography, Toward Freedom (American ed. 1941, repr. 1958); biographies by M. Edwardes (1971) and S. Gopal (3 vol., 1976–84); B. R. Nanda, The Nehrus (1962); A. von Tunzelmann, Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (2007); G. Horne, The End of Empires: African Americans and India (2008); P. Anderson, The Indian Ideology (2012); R. Basrur and K. Sullivan de Estrada, eds., Rising India: Status and Power (2017); M. N. Das, The Political Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru (2022).
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