Outlook, India's English
Weekly News Magazine in its 12th January, 2015 edition chose Jawaharlal Nehru's
much acclaimed book " The Discovery of India' as one of the 100
Great Books of the World.
On one fine day in May, 2014 when I went
to a old newspaper vendor shop which I do regularly to buy second-hand
books, this book was stacked along with some other old books and
kept in a dusty corner. I bought a couple of others books including this one for a price in kgs.
But Outlook's description of the book woke me up from the slumber. The magazine termed this book as
rambling account of the history and culture of India - from Indus
valley civilization to the British Raj.
In his Preface to the book Nehru says that the book was written in Ahmadnagar
Fort prison during the five months (April - September, 1944). The
contents of the book offer a scholarly look into India's past, and no
doubt that it is a thoroughly researched book with a minefield of
information nowhere found in a single book.
Being an Indian, it is the duty of every one of us to read the book, not as an
obligation but for the love of such rich cultural history which no country in
the world has !
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