The Discovery Of India - Opening

I. Ahmadnagar Fort

I. TWENTY MONTHS

Ahmadnagar Fort. April thirteenth, nineteen forty-four. It is more than twenty months since we were brought here, more than twenty months of my ninth term of imprisonment. The new moon, a shimmering crescent in the darkening sky, greeted us on our arrival here.

To my colleagues annd co-prisoners in
the Ahmadnagar Fort prison camp
from August 9, 1942 to March 28, 1945


Cover photograph of Jaipur, a peasant cart
near the entrance to the Purana Ghat, by
Hennri Cartier-Bresson. Cover design by Di-
ana Klemin. Typography by Edward Gorey..

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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

EDITED, WIT A FOREWORD AND
COMMENTS BY ROBERT I. CRANE


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1959