TY - BOOK AU - Nehru,Jawaharlal AU - Khosla,Madhav TI - Letters for a nation: from Jawaharlal Nehru to his chief ministers, 1947-1963 SN - 9780670087723 AV - DS481.N35 A4 2014 U1 - 954.042092 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Gurgaon, Haryana, India PB - Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books KW - Nehru, Jawaharlal, KW - Prime ministers KW - India KW - Correspondence KW - Chief ministers KW - Politics and government KW - 1947- N1 - "Excerpts from Jawaharlal Nehru's Letters to chief ministers: 1947-1964, in five volumes ..."--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index; Also available as an e-book 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 that he kept until his last letter in December 1963, only a few months before his death.Carefully selected from among nearly 400 such letters, this collection covers a range of themes and subjects, including citizenship, war and peace, law and order, national planning and development, governance and corruption, and Indiaଓs place in the world. The letters also cover momentous world events and the many crises and conflicts the country faced during the first sixteen years after Independence ER -