Indira gandhi biography writer
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About the Book
Twenty years after her death, a study on Indira Gandhi still exercises an interest. A chronicle of the years between and during which, except for two or three years, Indira Gandhi was India's Prime Minister. The book is a historical study of the tumultuous events in which Indira Gandhi played a dominant role. The author has tried to piece together these momentous events into an integral narrative so that it reads like a story.
Father Benny Aguiar delves into his memory to write about the period when Indira Gandhi dominated the Indian politics. Indira became the Prime Minister of India in and remained so, barring the period , till her assassination in She had a colossal presence and the history of India of this period got closely interwoven with her story.
It is in this sense that the book is important. It is not a historical record of events, which many other books have already done. Father Aguiar recounts from his experiences of the period to produ
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Indira Gandhi: A Biography
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pupul Jayakar
Pupul Jayakar was born in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, in She was closely involved with the development of indigenous culture, handicrafts and textiles since the country achieved independence in She has been the Chairman of the All India Handicrafts Board, the Governing Body of the National Institute of Design, the Handicraft and Handloom Exports Corporation of India, the National Institute of Fashion Technology, the Crafts Museum of India, the Calico Museum of Textiles, the Festivals on India in Great Britain, France, USA and Japan, and the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH). She was Chairman of the Krishnamurti Foundation, India and published a bestselling biography of Krishnamurti in She has written several other books, including The Earth Mother, The Children of Barren Women, The Buddha and God is Not a Full-Stop, a volume of short stories.
Bibliographic information
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Indira Gandhi
Prime Minister of India from to and to
Indira Gandhi | |
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Official portrait, | |
| In office 14 January &#;– 31 October | |
| President | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Zail Singh |
| Vice President | Mohammad Hidayatullah Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| Preceded by | Charan Singh |
| Succeeded by | Rajiv Gandhi |
| In office 24 January &#;– 24 March | |
| President | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Zakir Husain V. V. Giri Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed B. D. Jatti(Acting) |
| Vice President | |
| Deputy | Morarji Desai (13&#;March&#;&#;– 16&#;July&#;) |
| Preceded by | Lal Bahadur Shastri[a] |
| Succeeded by | Morarji Desai |
| In office 19 July &#;– 31 October | |
| Prime Minister | Herself |
| Preceded by | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
| Succeeded by | Rajiv Gandhi |
| In office 6 September &#;– 13 February | |
| Prime Minister | Herself |
| Preceded by | M. C. Chagla |
| Succeeded by | Dinesh Singh |
| In office 14 January &#;– 15 January | |
| Prime Minister | Herself |
| Preceded by | Ch |