in this book pandit Nehru has displayed his deep knowledge about the history of India and he has also invoked a much-needed sense of identity and belongingness in the twilight of the British raj. This book is a fascinating insight into the mind of our first prime minister his vision his ideologies his philosophies and his passions. This book is like a map of India’s complex journey through social traditions invasions and transformations. The Discovery of india by pandit jawaharlal nehru the discovery of India is pandit Nehru’s attempt at envisioning a future for an independent India by taking us on a journey through India’s rich and complex historical and cultural heritage from the industry civilization to the British raj in India. In India was coming to an end written partly in solitary confinement this book gives us a glimpse into the frame of mind of a freedom fighter as well as pandit Nehru’s vision for a free and independent India. When he was imprisoned at Ahmednagar fort prison because of his involvement in the quit India movement it was later published in 1946 when the British raj. The discovery of India was written by pandit Jawaharlal Nehru between the years 1942 to 1945. The discovery of India by pandit Jawaharlal Nehru considered to be one of India’s most important books.
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These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Working under many of the same assumptions as those they criticized, this intensive period of research did little to alter the fundamental belief that creativity is located in the individual. These ideas were criticized in the twentieth century within the discipline of psychology, and others, as attempts were made to make creativity the subject of scientific study. With one or two notable exceptions, pre-twentieth-century ideas concentrate on creativity as divinely inspired, as the product of an extraordinary individual or genius or as a symptom of mental illness. What is clear from the previous chapter is a gradual movement in thinking away from a focus on the individual towards confluence or systems approaches to creativity. 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