Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pandit ("Learned Brahman") Jawaharlal Nehru is a revolutionist, orator, humanitarian, philosopher, amateur swimmer. His book is 1) an extraordinary feat of intellectual gymnastics-most of it was written in torrid (112°) Indian prisons, where Author Nehru has spent about eight years for anti-British political activity; 2) a highly readable history of the world, with special emphasis on that part of it about which most Westerners know least-Asia...
...book, written in the form of letters to Nehru's young daughter, Indira, is sometimes sententious, sometimes ostentatiously simplified, occasionally inaccurate-because it was written in jails with no libraries and, says Nehru, because "during my brief period out of prison I have not had the time" to have a "competent historian" revise the manuscript. It is also strongly leftist...
...Author Nehru has five heroes, and they tell more about Nehru's mind than he tells about them. What they tell is peculiarly relevant because Nehru is a great Asiatic contemporary, must be reckoned with in the future history of India. The heroes...
Gandhi is still one of Nehru's heroes, even though he has split with him on tactics and methods...
Like his heroes, Nehru is an intellectual far ahead of the mass of his people, and not quite like them. For though the emphasis in Glimpses of World History is Asiatic, Old Harrovian Nehru is himself an imperfect amalgam of East and West...