TY - BOOK AU - Jawaharlal Nehru AU - Madhav Khosla,Ed TI - Letters for a nation : from Jawaharlal Nehru to his chief ministers, 1947-1963 SN - 9780670087723 U1 - 954.042092 PY - 2014/// CY - Haryana PB - Allen Lane KW - Prime ministers KW - Chief ministers KW - Politics and government KW - India N1 - "Excerpts from Jawaharlal Nehru's Letters to chief ministers: 1947-1964, in five volumes ..."--Title page verso N2 - In October 1947, two months after he became independent India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the first of his fortnightly letters to the heads of the country’s provincial governments—a tradition he kept until a few months before his death. This carefully selected collection covers a range of themes and subjects, including citizenship, war and peace, law and order, governance and corruption, and India’s place in the world. The letters also cover momentous world events and the many crises the country faced during the first sixteen years after Independence. Visionary, wise and reflective, these letters are of great contemporary relevance for the guidance they provide for our current problems and predicaments ER -