autobiography of pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru IN 700-800 words
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What's an autobiography?
It's the story of a person’s life written by that person
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Story of my Life : Jawaharlal Nehru
Today, almost at the last stage of life, as I look back I think of so many things to pen down. I saw the light of earth for the first time on 14 November 1889. My parents are Swarup Rani and Motilal Nehru. I'm a graduate of Trinity College of Cambridge. I was trained to be a barrister in Inner Temple. Upon my return to India, I enrolled at the Allahabad High Court and took an interest in national politics, which eventually replaced my legal practice. A committed nationalist I was since my teenage years. Gandhiji was my mentor.
I rember those days when World War II began, Viceroy Linlithgow had unilaterally declared India as a belligerent on the side of the Britain, without consulting our elected Indian representatives.
I hurried back from a visit to China and announced, that "our sympathies must inevitably be on the side of democracy.… I should like India to play its full part and throw all her resources into the struggle for a new order."
After much deliberation, we informed the government that we would cooperate with the British but on certain conditions.
I'm an Indian independence activist and am the first Prime Miniter of free India. Many consider me as a central figure in Inidan politics both before and after independence. Many people call me as "Pandit Nehru" due to my roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community, while the children call me "Chacha Nehru".
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Nehru clarifies his aims and objectives in the preface to the first edition, as to occupy his time constructively, review past events in India and to begin the job of "self-questioning" in what is his "personal account". He states "my object was...primarily for my own benefit, to trace my own mental growth". He did not target any particular audience but wrote "if I thought of an audience, it was one of my own countrymen and countrywomen. For foreign readers I would have probably written differently".[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 revolt of 1857.
Chapter four is devoted to "Harrow and Cambridge" and the English influence on Nehru. Written during the long illness of his wife, Kamala, Nehru's autobiography is closely centred around his marriage.
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". 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”.
He includes an epilogue on 14 February 1935. On 4 September 1935, five and a half months before the completion of his sentence, he was released from Almora District jail due to his wife's deteriorating health, and the following month he added a postscript whilst at Badenweiler, Schwarzwald, where she was receiving treatment.