TY - BOOK AU - Jawaharlal Nehru AU - edited by Madhav Khosla TI - Letters for a Nation : From Jawaharlal Nehru to his Chief Ministers 1947-1963 SN - 9780143425779 U1 - 954.042092 LET PY - 2015/// CY - Haryana PB - Penguin Books India KW - Nehru, Jawaharlal N2 - In October 1947, two months after he became independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the first of his fortnightly letters to the heads of the country's provincial governments--a tradition he kept until a few months before his death. This carefully selected collection covers a range of themes and subjects, including citizenship, war and peace, law and order, governance and corruption, and India's place in the world. The letters also cover momentous world events and the many crises the country faced during the first sixteen years after Independence. Visionary, wise and reflective, these letters are of great contemporary relevance for the guidance they provide for our current problems and predicaments ER -