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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 1966 and 1984 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 del av helhet 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 1966 and remained so, barring the period 1977-79, mot her assassination in 1984. She had a colossal presence and the history of India of this period got closely interwoven with her story.

    It fryst vatten in this sense that the book is important. It fryst vatten not a historical record of events, which many other books have already done. Father Aguiar recounts from his experi

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    Indira Gandhi: A Biography

    October 2, 2020
    Ever since I read the biography of P.N. Haksar, who worked as principal secretary of PM Indira Gandhi for a decade, my desire to read about Indira Gandhi intensified further. Jairam Ramesh's account on P.N. Haksar's was about his intertwined life with Indira Gandhi in her personal grief, governance, diplomatic decisions, major policies, speeches and his fallout with her son Sanjay Gandhi. While two other books which focused on the major events which occurred during Indira Gandhi's tenure was Mark Tully's 'Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's last battle' and Kuldip Nayar's 'Emergency Retold', which almost covered the patches of India's unstable years of democracy. But this book has been written by someone who is considered to be a very close friend of Mrs. G, who later went on to become the cultural advisor under Indira Gandhi's government.

    In this book, Pupul Jayakar presented a charming chronology of Indira Gandhi's sixty six years of life, starting f

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    Indira Gandhi

    Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984

    Indira Gandhi

    Official portrait, 1983

    In office
    14 January 1980 – 31 October 1984
    PresidentNeelam Sanjiva Reddy
    Zail Singh
    Vice PresidentMohammad Hidayatullah
    Ramaswamy Venkataraman
    Preceded byCharan Singh
    Succeeded byRajiv Gandhi
    In office
    24 January 1966 – 24 March 1977
    PresidentSarvepalli Radhakrishnan
    Zakir Husain
    V. V. Giri
    Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
    B. D. Jatti(Acting)
    Vice President
    DeputyMorarji Desai (13 March 1967 – 16 July 1969)
    Preceded byLal Bahadur Shastri[a]
    Succeeded byMorarji Desai
    In office
    19 July 1984 – 31 October 1984
    Prime MinisterHerself
    Preceded byP. V. Narasimha Rao
    Succeeded byRajiv Gandhi
    In office
    6 September 1967 – 13 February 1969
    Prime MinisterHerself
    Preceded byM. C. Chagla
    Succeeded byDinesh Singh