TY - BOOK AU - Nehru, Jawaharlal TI - Glimpses of world history SN - 9780143031055 U1 - 909 PY - 2004/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Random House, KW - India Politics and government 20th century KW - World history KW - Prime ministers India Biography N1 - CONTENTS From Central Prison, Naini A Birthday Letter 1. A New Year’s Gift 2. The Lesson of History 3. Ingilab Zinda Bad 4. Asia and Europe 5. The Old Civilizations and Our Inheritance 6. The Hellenes 7. The Greek City States 8. Empires in Western Asia 9. The Burden of Old Tradition 10. The Village Republics of Ancient India 11. A Thousand Years of China 12. The Call of the Past 13. Where Do Riches Go To? 14. The Sixth Century Before Christ, and Religion 15. Persia and Greece 16. The Glory that was Hellas 17. A Famous Conqueror but a Conceited Young Man 18. Chandragupta Maurya and the Arthashastra From on board SS. Caracovia in the Arabian Sea 19. Three Months! 20. The Arabian Sea From District Jail, Bareilly 21. A Holiday and A Dream Journey 22. Man’s Struggle for A Living 23. A Survey 24. Ashoka, The Beloved of the Gods 25. The World of Ashoka’s Time 26. The Ch’ins and the Hans 27. Rome Against Carthage 28. The Roman Republic becomes an Empire 29. South India overshadows the North 30. The Borderland Empire of the Kushans 31. Jesus and Christianity 32. The Roman Empire 33. The Roman Empire splits up ‘and finally becomes a ghost 34. The Idea of the World State 35. Parthia and the Sassanids 36. South India Colonises 37. Hindu Imperialism under the Guptas 38. The Huns come to India . 39. India’s Control of Foreign Markets .. 40. The Ups and Downs of Countries and Civilizations 41. China flourishes under the Tangs 42. Chosen and Dai Nippon 43. Harsha-Vardhana and Hiuen Tsang | 44. South India produces many mae? and Warriors and a Great Man 45. India in the Middle Ages 46. Angkor the Magnificent and Sri Vijaya 47. Rome relapses into Darkness 48. The Coming of Islam 49. The Arabs Conquer from Spain to Mongolia. 50. Baghdad and Harunal-Rashid st 51. From Harsha to Mahmud in North India 52. The Countries of Europe Take Shape 53. The Feudal System 54. China Pushes the Nomads to the West 55. The Shogun Rules in Japan From District Jail, Debra Dun 56. The Quest of Man 57. The End of the First Millennium After Christ 58. Another Look at Asia and Europe 59. The Maya Civilization of America 60. A Jump Back to Mohenjo-daro 61. Cordoba and Granada 62. The Crusades 63. Europe at the Time of the Crusades 64. The Rise of European Cities 65. The Afghans Invade India 66. The Slave Kings of Delhi 67. Chengiz Khan Shakes up Asia and Europe 68. The Mongols Dominate the World 69. Marco Polo, The Great Traveller 70. The Roman Church becomes Militant 71. The Fight Against Authoritarianism 72. The Passing of the Middle Ages 73. The Discovery of the Sea Routes 74. The Break-up of the Mongol Empires 75. India Begins to Tackle a Difficult Problem 76. The Kingdoms of South India 77. Vijayanagar 78. The Malaysian Empires of Madjapahit and Malacca 79. Europe Begins to grab in Eastern Asia 80. An Age of Peace and Prosperity in China 81. Japan Shuts Herself Up 82. Europe in Turmoil 83. The Renaissance 84. The Protestant Revolt and the Peasants’ W’ar 85. Autocracy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe 86. The Netherlands Fight for Freedom 87. England cuts off the Head of Her King 88. Babar 89. Akbar 90. The Decline and Fall of the Mughal Empire in India 91. The Sikhs and the Marathas 92. The English Triumph over their Rivals in India 93. A Great Manchu Ruler in China 94. A Chinese Emperor W’rites to an English King 95. The War of Ideas in Eighteenth Century Europe 96. Europe on the Eve of Great Changes 97. The Coming of the Big Machine 98. The Industrial Revolution Begins in England 99. America Breaks away from England 100. The Fall of the Bastille 101. The French Revolution 102. Revolution and Counter-Revolution 103. The Ways of the Governments 104. Napoleon 105. More About Napoleon 106. A Survey of the World. 107. The Hundred Years Before the World War. 108. The Nineteenth Century Continued. 109. Wars and Revolt in India. 110. The Indian Artisan Goes to the Wall. 111. The Village, the Peasant and the Landlord in India. 112. How Britain Ruled India. 113. The Re-awakening of India. 114. Britain Forces Opium on China. 115. China in Difficulties. 116. Japan Rushes Ahead. 117. Japan Defeats Russia. 118. China Becomes A Republic. 119. Father India and the East Indies. 120. Another New Year’s Day. 121. The Philippines and the United States of America. 122. Where Three Continents Meet. 123. A Look Back. 124. The Persistence of Iran’s Old Traditions. 125. Imperialism and Nationalism in Persia. 126. About Revolutions Generally and Especially those of Eighteen Forty-eight in Europe. 127. Italy Becomes A United and Free Nation. 128. The Rise of Germany. 129. Some Famous Writers. 130. Darwin and the Triumphs of Science. 131. The Advance of Democracy. 132. The Coming of Socialism. 133. Karl Marx and the Growth of Workers’ Organizations. 134. Marxism. 135. The Victorian Age in England. 136. England Becomes the World’s Money-lender. 137. Civil War in America. 138. The Invisible Empire of America. 139. Seven Hundred Years of Conflict between Ireland and England. 140. Home Rule and Sinn Fein in Ireland. 141. Britain Seizes and Holds on to Egypt. 142. Turkey Becomes the “Sick Man of Europe”. 143. The Russia of the Tsars. 144. The Russian Revolution of 1905 that Failed. 145. The End of An Epoch. 146. The World War Begins. 147. India on the Eve of the War. 148. War 1914—1918. 149. The Courses of the War. 150. The Passing Away of Tsardom. 151. The Bolsheviks Seize Power. 152. The Soviets Win Through. 153. Japan Bullies China. 154. India During War Time. 155. The New Map of Europe. 156. The Post-War World. 157. Ireland’s Fight for A Republic. 158. A New Turkey Rises from the Ashes. 159. Mustafa Kamal Breaks with the Past. 160. India Follows Gandhi. 161. India in the Nineteen-Twenties. 162. Peaceful Rebellion in India. 163. Egypt’s Fight for Freedom. 164. What Independence Under the British Means. 165. Western Asia Re-enters World Politics. 166. The Arab Countries—Syria. 167. Palestine and Trans- Jordan. 168. Arabia—A Jump from the Middle Ages. 169. Iraq and the Virtues of Aerial Bombing. 170. Afghanistan and Some of the Other Countries of Asia. 171. The Revolution that Did Not Come Off. 172. A New Way of Paying Old Debts. 173. The Strange Behaviour of Money. 174. Move and Counter-move. 175. Mussolini and Fascism in Italy. 176. Democracy and Dictatorship. 177. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in China. 178. Japan Defies the World. 179. The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. 180. The Piatiletka or Russia’s Five Year Plan. 181. The Soviet Union’s Difficulties, Failures and Successes. 182. Science Goes Ahead. 183. The Good and Bad Applications of Science. 184. The Great Depression and World Crisis. 185. What Caused the crisis. 186. The Struggle of America and England for Leadership. 187. The Dollar, the Pound and the Rupee. 188. The Capitalist World Fails to Pull Together. 189. Revolution in Spain. 190. The Nazis Triumph in Germany. 191. Disarmament. 192. President Roosevelt to the Rescue. 193. The Failure of Parliaments. 194. A Final Look Round the World. 195. The Shadow of War. 196. The Last Letter. Index. ER -