Indira gandhi autobiography
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Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India for sixteen years, was as charismatic as she was controversial–at once admired and criticized for her political judgements and actions. Yet beyond such debate, what has not been fully understood is her life-long communion with nature and how that defined her very being. Weaving personal, political and environmental history, politician-scholar Jairam Ramesh narrates the compelling story of Indira Gandhi, the naturalist. He tells us why and how she came to make a private passion a public calling; how her views on the environment remained steadfast even as her political and economic stances changed; how her friendships with conservationists led to far-reaching decisions to preserve India’s biodiversity; how she urged, cajoled and persuaded her colleagues as she took significant decisions particularly regarding forests and wildlife; and how her own finely-developed instincts and beliefs resulted in landmark policies, programmes, initiatives, laws and institutions, that have endured. Drawing extensively from unpublished letters, notes, messages and memos, Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature offers a lively, conversational narrative of a relatively little known but fascinating aspect of Indira Gandhi’s tumultuous life. Equally, the b
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INDIRA : THE LIFE OF INDIRA NEHRU GANDHI (English, Paperback, Katherine Frank)
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi is the definitive and the first non-partisan biography of Indira Gandhi, one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century.
Summary of the Book
Indira Gandhi was voted the Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll in Indira’s entire life was influenced by Indian politics - since her birth in , through the Partition and up to , the year she was assassinated. And once she became the Prime Minister of India, she became one of the most powerful and important women in the world. This biography of Indira is the first to be written by a western woman. The book focuses on Indira’s life as a female leader of one of the most complex and politicised cultures in the world.
About Katherine Frank
Katherine Frank is a famous American biographer and author. She has also authored the widely commended biography of Lucie Duff Gordon. She currently lives in England.
About HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers India Ltd. is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Worldwide. It has shown phenomenal growth in the past years and publishes fiction, non-fiction and poetry by various writers like Nayantara Sehgal, Kiran Nagarkar, Meghnad Desa
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Indira Gandhi
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| 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 Oct | |
| 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 | Chidambaram Subramaniam |
| Succeeded by | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| In office 1 Dec &#;– 20 Dec | |
| Prime Minister | Herself |
| Preceded by | Swaran Singh |
| Succeeded by | Bansi Lal |
| In office 27 June &#;– 5 February | |
| Prime Minister | Herself |
| Preceded by | Yashwantrao Chav
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