ABSTRACT
The way out of the impasse that was Indian politics in the mid-1920s seemed to be provided by socialism; and it was to socialism that Jawaharlal now turned to make sense of the world. Once again, Jawaharlal’s political education was to be continued outside India. In March 1926, he, his wife and daughter set sail for Europe: Kamala was ill, with a variant of tuberculosis, and a Swiss sanatorium beckoned. The family managed to intersperse bouts of treatment for Kamala with skiing trips and tours of the major cultural sites of Europe, while Jawaharlal read widely and tried to teach himself French (although he had studied the language at Harrow, he did not feel that that training had equipped him to use it).
