<Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 978 - 0 - 19 - 562360 - 4 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 21227307 </Td> </Tr> <P> Glimpses of World History, a book published by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1934, is a panoramic sweep of the history of humankind . It is a collection of 196 letters on world history written from various prisons in British India between 1930--1933 . The letters were written to his young daughter Indira, and were meant to introduce her to world history . </P> <P> The letters start off with one he sends to his daughter on her birthday . He says he is sad about not being able to send her any "material" gift from prison, so he would try to give her something he can "afford", a series of letters from his heart . </P>

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