ABSTRACT
Early in 1923 Jawaharlal Nehru was released from jail and his time of enforced rest and reflection. This chapter focuses on his life from then until 1945, when he was given his final release from an imperial prison and was clearly destined soon to take up high office in an independent India. These two decades, from his early thirties to his early fifties, were a time of personal and political maturation. In them he left behind all normal family life, travelled widely in India and Europe, and became central to the politics of the Indian National Congress and the nationalist movement as Gandhi’s closest younger colleague.
