Letters from a Father to His Daughter

Letters from a Father to His Daughter
Book cover from the 2004 Puffin edition
AuthorJawaharlal Nehru
TranslatorTo Hindi by Munshi Premchand
IllustratorPuffin Books
LanguageEnglish (original), Hindi, Spanish
PublisherAllahabad Law Journal Press
Publication date1929
Publication placeIndia
OCLC47215515

Letters from a Father to His Daughter is a collection of letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru to his daughter Indira Nehru. The collection was originally published in 1929 by Allahabad Law Journal Press, at Nehru's request, and consists of 30 letters sent in the summer of 1928, when Indira was ten years old. Nehru arranged a second edition in 1931, and subsequent reprints and editions have been published.[1][2][3]

The letters were primarily educational, covering subjects of natural and human history. At the time of writing, Nehru was in Allahabad while Indira resided in Mussoorie. The original letters in English were translated into Hindi by the novelist Munshi Premchand under the title Pita Ke Patra Putri Ke Naam.[4]

In 2014, a Spanish translation, Cartas a mi hija Indira (Letters to my daughter Indira), was released by Rodolfo Zamora, including five additional letters. An amplified edition was released in Cuba in 2018, commemorating the 100th anniversary of correspondence between Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.[5][6][7] On the same year, the book was published in China by CITIC Press under the title My Father Nehru's World History (Chinese: 爸爸尼赫鲁写给我的世界史; pinyin: Bàbà níhèlǔ xiě gěi wǒde shì jièshǐ), with translation done by Liang Benbin.[8]

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References

  1. ↑ Nehru, Jawaharlal (2004). Letters from a Father to His Daughter (4th ed.). New Delhi: Puffin Books. ISBN 978-0143441861. letters from a father to his daughter 2004 forward. Foreword by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
  2. ↑ Gandhi, Sonia (2005). Two Alone, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 1922-1964. Penguin Books India. ISBN 9780143032458.
  3. ↑ "BBC - Freedom's Daughter - Media Centre". BBC. 25 January 2001. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  4. ↑ https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.346698/mode/2up
  5. ↑ Balakrishnan, Anima (4 August 2006). "Young World: From dad with love". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 12 November 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2008.
  6. ↑ "Pandit Nehru's advice to his daughter is something all of us need today". India Today. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  7. ↑ Zama, M. (2004). Prose for Our Times. Orient Blackswan. pp. 39–45. ISBN 8125026819.
  8. ↑ "爸爸尼赫鲁写给我的世界史" [My Father Nehru's World History]. Douban. Retrieved 18 July 2026.

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