At other times he "provided a profoundly philosophical interpretation of world history". At times the style is that of an intimate conversation with his daughter, who is at Anand Bhavan, in which he also anticipates her reactions and the feelings she might have when reading it. The letters on history are sprinkled with contemporary and personal events, things that happened to himself or his friends, colleagues or family members. The letters were not actually sent to his daughter and he kept them until his release from prison in 1933.
#Glimpses of series
He says he is sad about not being able to send her any "material" gift from prison, so he would try to give her something he can "afford", a series of letters from his heart.Īs it was written in different prisons, he had little recourse to reference books or a library but his personal notes. The letters start off with one he sends to his daughter on her birthday. They were a continuation of the letters he sent to her in 1928, which were published as Letters from a Father to His Daughter.
The letters were addressed to his young daughter Indira and were meant to introduce her to world history. It is a collection of 196 letters on world history written between 1930–1933 in various prisons in British India: Naini and Bareilly prisons as well as at Dehradun two letters were written aboard an Italian steamer in the Arabian sea. The book is subtitled Being further letters to his daughter, written in prison, and containing a rambling account of history for young people. Glimpses of World History is a book published by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1934.
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