β Scribed by Pupul Jayakar
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Indira gandhiβs life was part of the unfolding history of india, intricately woven with indiaβs past and future it became inevitable, therefore, that politics formed a backdrop to her public and often private actionsβ indira gandhiβs 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 gandhiβher 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 portraitβat once empathetic and unprejudicedβof one of the twentieth centuryβs most remarkable women
Title page
Contents
About the Author
By The Same Author
Dedication
Foreword
Prologue
PART I
PART II
PART III
PART VI
PART V
PART VI
PART VII
PART VIII
Epilogue
Illustrations
Footnotes
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Notes
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