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020			_a9780143031055
082			_a909 _bNEH
100			_aNehru, Jawaharlal _95515
245		0	_aGlimpses of world history
260			_aGurgaon _bPenguin _c2004
300			_a115p.
520			_aOn New Year's Day, 1931, Jawaharlal Nehru began a remarkable series of letters on the history of the world to his daughter, Indira, then, thirteen years old. Over the next thirty months, Nehru wrote nearly two hundred letters in this series, which were later published as Glimpses of World History. With its panoramic sweep and its gripping narrative flow, all the more remarkable for being written in prison where Nehru had no recourse to reference books or a library, Glimpses of World History covers the rise and fall of empires and civilizations from Greece and Rome to China and West Asia; great figures such as Ashoka and Genghis Khan, Gandhi and Lenin; wars and revolutions, democracies and dictatorships.
650			_aCivilization _91538
650			_aWorld history _9739
650			_aHistory _9455
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