Genre

Non-Fiction, Education, History, Human Evolution, Biology, Zoology, Geology, Economics, Psychology, Nature, Society

Publisher

The Book

The book is a collection of 30 letters written by the Indian freedom fighter Jawaharlal Nehru to his 10 year old daughter while she is living away in a hill station. Through these letters he attempts to share his understanding of the world and how it came to be as it is - and helps his daughter build a mature world view.

The book is divided into 30 chapters, each one a single letter:

1. The book of nature
2. How early history was written
3. The making of the Earth
4. The first living things
5. The animals appear
6. The coming of man
7. The early men
8. How different races were formed
9. The races and languages of mankind
10. The relationships of languages
11. What is civilization?
12. The formation of tribes
13. How religion began and the division of labour
14. The changes brought about by agriculture
15. The patriarch - how he began
16. The patriarch - how he developed
17. The patriarch becomes the king
18. The early civilizations
19. The great cities of the ancient world
20. Egypt and Crete
21. China and India
22. Sea voyages and trade
23. Language, writing and numerals
24. Different classes of people
25. Kings and temples and priests
26. A look back
27. Fossils and ruins
28. The Aryans come to India
29. What were the Aryans in India like?
30. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata

Rating

Green - the book is extremely well written and relevant for general audience. This is a book you must gift to your pre-teen kids - and read your self too.

The quality of the book is reflected in the fact that even 90 years after being written it is still very much relevant today - only difference being what were speculations then, are facts today.

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