TY - BOOK AU - Jawaharlal Nehru TI - Jawaharlal Nehru : : an Autobiography SN - 9780143031048 U1 - 954.040924 PY - 2004/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Books KW - Nehru, Jawaharlal, -- 1889-1964. Prime ministers -- India -- Biography. India -- Politics and government -- 20th century. N2 - First published in 1936, and now available in a centenary edition, this book was written by Nehru almost entirely in prison from June 1934 to February 1935. His account, though replete with autobiographical details, is much more than a personal document; in the words of Rabindranath Tagore, "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." ER -