What does pt. Nehru seek from the past of india short answer type question
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When it came to Indian history, Nehru was a rationalist and was aware of the country’s achievements and shortcomings. He spoke about her epochs of glory and the moments when she fell to decay. But at the same time, Nehru was also emotional about the Indian past and spoke passionately about the ‘soul’ and ‘destiny’ of India. “The awakening of India was two-fold: she looked to the West, and at the same time she looked at herself and her past,” wrote Nehru in his ‘The discovery of India,’ remarking on the fact that Indian nationalism was a result of both a revolution against the British and that against her own past.
Nehru’s passion for India is most pronounced in his ‘The discovery of India,’ which he wrote 12 years after he finished ‘Glimpses of world history.’ Historian David Kopf calls ‘The discovery of India,’ to be a gift of Nehru to the Indian renaissance movement. “The book became a renaissance classic in which was reconstructed more than five thousand years of Indian cultural history with a pride, passion, and meticulous devotion that its author, a famed anti-traditional futurist, could not conceal,” writes Kopf.
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Nehru’s leap into the Indian past in his ‘The discovery of India,’ however, was pronounced by the fact that in his attempt to discover India, he once again wrote the history of the world. His book was a brilliant attempt at a comparative history of India and the world. Thus, while on one hand, he took pride in the ancient Indian achievements of medicine, science, and arts, he did so in the context of how India depended on Greek, Iranian, European and Islamic civilisations for these achievements. As Kopf states, Nehru’s writing of Indian history was done in a way “to preclude even the slightest nationalist bigotry and distortion.” For Nehru therefore, the Indian past was not just a matter of pride for her citizens, but also something that the world could gloat over.