Overview
- The digital edition hosts the complete Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru—about 35,000 documents and roughly 3,000 illustrations—free to search and download on mobile or desktop.
- Materials span the 1920s to the 1960s and include correspondence, speeches, interviews, file notes, diary entries and doodles, with original Hindi speeches plus English translations available from volume 44 (September 1958).
- Phase two begins with efforts to locate letters written to Nehru, including exchanges with Rabindranath Tagore, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and the Mountbatten family, with outreach to repositories such as the Churchill and Einstein archives.
- Project leaders describe the release as an uncensored scholarly resource focused on transparency; the archive runs alongside PMML holdings, and privately held papers may be added if offered but will not be solicited.
- The platform pairs searchable text with print facsimiles and was hand‑tagged by a team of scholars and students—reported at over 95% accuracy—with newly surfaced items highlighting episodes like Nehru’s correspondence over Chandigarh’s capital project.