Glimpses of World History
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Glimpses of World History
| Author | Jawaharlal Nehru |
|---|---|
| Published | 1934 |
| Pages | 1,012 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | 196 letters Nehru wrote from British prisons between 1930 and 1933 to his daughter Indira, sketching world history from memory with almost no reference books to hand. A world history composed in a cell by a future prime minister, written deliberately from outside the European centre. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the answers to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (the thread, June 2025). The full list of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- India — the author’s country, and the reason he was in prison while writing it.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.