Through all its details there runs a deep current of humanity which overpasses
the tangles of facts and leads us to the person who is greater than his deeds
and truer than his surroundings.' â€" Rabindranath Tagore
Jawaharlal Nehru's life was closely intertwined with the history and destiny of
modern India. His Autobiography, written between 1934 and 1935 when he was in
prison, is more than the personal story of an individualâ€"it is also an account
of the political awakening of a nation, its struggle for freedom from British
rule, and its search to reshape itself as a modern society, rid of the cultural
and economic