Jawaharlal Nehru : An Autobiography

Contents: Foreword. 1. Descent from Kashmir. 2. Childhood. 3. Theosophy. 4. Harrow and Cambridge. 5. Back home and war-time politics in India. 6. My wedding and an adventure in the Himalayas. 7. The coming of Gandhiji: Satyagraha and Amritsar. 8. I am externed and the consequences thereof. 9. Wanderings among the Kisans. 10. Non-co-operation. 11. Nineteen twenty-one and the first imprisonment. 12. Non-violence and the doctrine of the sword. 13. Lucknow district Gaol. 14. Out again. 15. Doubt and conflict. 16. An interlude at Nabha. 17. Coconada and M. Mohamad Ali. 18. My father and Gandhiji. 19. Communalism Rampant. 20. Municipal work. 21. In Europe. 22. Controversies in India. 23. The oppressed meet at Brussels. 24. Return to India and plunge back into politics. 25. Experience of Lathi charges. 26. Trade union congress. 27. Thunder in the air. 28. Independence and after. 29. Civil disobedience begins. 30. In Naini prison. 31. Negotiations at Yeravda. 32. The no-tax campaign in the united provinces. 33. Death of my father. 34. The Delhi pact. 35. Karachi congress. 36. A southern holiday. 37. Friction during truce period. 38. The Round Table Conference. 39. Agrarian troubles in the united provinces. 40. The end of the truce. 41. Arrests, ordinances, proscriptions. 42. Ballyhoo. 43. In Bareilly and Dehra Dun Gaols. 44. Prison humours. 45. Animals in prison. 46. Struggle. 47. What is religion? 48. The \'Dual policy\' of the British Government. 49. The end of a long term. 50. A visit to Gandhiji. 51. The liberal outlook. 52. Dominion status and independence. 53. India old and new. 54. The record of British rule. 55. A civil marriage and a question of script. 56. Communalism and reaction. 57. Impasse. 58. Earthquake. 59. Alipore Gaol. 60. Democracy in east and west. 61. Desolation. 62. Paradoxes. 63. Conversion or compulsion. 64. Dehra Gaol again. 65. Eleven days. 66. Back to prison. 67. Some recent happenings. 68. Epilogue. 69. Postscript. 70. Five years later. Appendices. Index.