Indira gandhi’s life was part of the unfolding history of india, intricately woven with india’s past and future it became inevitable, therefore, that politics formed a backdrop to her public and often private actions’ indira gandhi’s life spanned over two-thirds of a century by the time of her brutal assassination in 1984, she had established herself as the most significant political leader india had seen since the death of her father, jawaharlal nehru in this book, written with the close cooperation of her subject, pupul jayakar seeks to uncover the many personalities that lay hidden within mrs gandhi much more than a political biography, the book reveals the complex personality of indira gandhi—her thoughts and feelings, her hates and prejudices, her insights and her faults, her loves and emotional entanglements full of startling insights, indira gandhi: a biography paints a magnificent portrait—at once empathetic and unprejudiced—of one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women
Dimensions: 198 x 35
Author: Jayakar Pupul
ISBN: 9780140114621
Format: Paperback
Pages: 537