Nehru wrote his autobiography Toward Freedom while in prison between June 1934 and February 1935. Also called The Autobiography, it was published in London in 1936 and has been translated into more than 30 languages.
It is one of Nehru’s most well-loved and influential books and has been reprinted many times. It has 68 chapters and over 672 pages.
In Toward Freedom Nehru delves into his family’s origin, his education in England and his marriage to Kamala. He also explores his own self-identity in the book, which he describes as a product of Eastern and Western influences.
In a wider context he presents his views on nationalism and nation building. The book became very popular with young intellectuals in India and abroad. It presented a modern ideology, which accounted for the challenges of nationalism within the framework of science, technology and industrialization.
Unlike Gandhiji, Nehru regarded poverty as an evil and was of the firm belief that the way forward was through the path of industrialization.
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