Mother India: A Political Biography of Indira GandhiScribner's, 1992 - 593 من الصفحات This is a sweeping biography of the life of Indira Gandhi, one of the great leaders of the twentieth century. It is the story of a remarkable woman who rose to become prime minister of a troubled India, an India of more than 900 million people. The daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, himself a prime minister before her, she grew up in a household fiercely dedicated to independence from England. Her parents spent much of their time as political prisoners. Indira spent much of her time in school or alone. When she was still a teenager, she raised money for the freedom movement and organized rallies; and although she studied at Oxford, she never doubted that she would devote her life to her country. With her mother dead, she accompanied Nehru on all of his state visits. It was her initiation into a political career of her own. As prime minister, Mrs. Gandhi wielded great power. She struggled ceaselessly to bring India into the modern world; she committed herself to programs to better the life of the people; she tirelessly promoted nonalignment and nuclear disarmament. But she was continually beleaguered by conflicts with the Muslims of Pakistan and the Sikhs of Punjab. As Pranay Gupte vividly recounts, these difficulties made Mrs. Gandhi more militant and more eager for control. She became self-interested, let corruption seep into her government, promised much, and delivered little. In the end, she made scores of enemies, and on October 31, 1984, she was assassinated by two bodyguards in her garden. In this stunning portrait, we have a trenchant analysis of a shrewd and deft political figure - a genius in her own right, bitterly opposed by many, but for millions of the masses she was always"Mother India", the embodiment of a thousand goddesses, "the symbol of shakti, or divine strength". |
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... fact that he was a Parsi , but that would be an incor- rect assumption . Nehru , in fact , was a thorough liberal and completely secularist - minded . After all , both his sisters had married outside of the Kashmiri Brahman community to ...
... fact that he was a Parsi , but that would be an incor- rect assumption . Nehru , in fact , was a thorough liberal and completely secularist - minded . After all , both his sisters had married outside of the Kashmiri Brahman community to ...
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... fact that she had no family anchor . " When Indira was Congress president in the 1950s , her performance was quite assertive , " Singh says . " Her father was alive then , and she drew strength from that fact . Now there was no one she ...
... fact that she had no family anchor . " When Indira was Congress president in the 1950s , her performance was quite assertive , " Singh says . " Her father was alive then , and she drew strength from that fact . Now there was no one she ...
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... fact that Indira had not fully consulted him before devaluing the currency by 57 percent . Morarji Desai also condemned the move . In an address that was broadcast to the nation on June 10 , Indira denied that the rupee had been ...
... fact that Indira had not fully consulted him before devaluing the currency by 57 percent . Morarji Desai also condemned the move . In an address that was broadcast to the nation on June 10 , Indira denied that the rupee had been ...
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The Funeral of Indira Gandhi 19171984 | 1 |
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