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By Katherine Frank
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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On the morning of October 31, 1984, as she walked through her garden, smiling, with hands raised and palms pressed together in the traditional Indian namaste greeting, Indira Nehru Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards. She died as she had lived, surrounded by men, yet isolated. It was a violent end to a life of epic drama.
Here is the first popular biography of one of the world's most influential leaders, India's third prime minister. Brought up during an era that saw the rise of Indian nationalism, Indira was raised to be what her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, called "a child of revolution" - destined to play a political role in the creation and governing of an independent India. Despite her early reluctance to embrace this role, Indira eventually presided over a huge, complex, religiously riven, and male-dominated country. She was born to a wealthy, westernized family, but she had a gift for connecting with the poor of the countryside and the urban slums, the illiterate, the dispossessed - so much so that "Indira is India" became a familiar slogan. Throughout childhood, love, marriage, imprisonment, motherhood, and a sequence of personal and family tragedies, her personal hopes and desires were continually subsumed by the historical and political imperatives of her country.
In this beautifully written book, the acclaimed biographer Katherine Frank draws on unpublished sources and more than a hundred interviews to create a rich, balanced portrait. INDIRA captures in full color the personal and political fate of the leader of the world's largest democracy - the woman who played a dominant role in the history of the twentieth century and who, when it ended, was voted Woman of the Millennium by the BBC. |
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By Carol Dommermuth-Costa
Lerner Publications
Hardcover (128 pages; 1)
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By Barbara A. Somervill
Signature Lives
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By Tariq Ali
Seagull Books
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Who killed Mrs Gandhi? We know the name of the assassins, but did they act alone? In this fictional filmscript, Tariq Ali suggests that larger forces were at work, exploiting genuine Sikh grievances to settle their own score with a Prime Minister who, whatever her faults, was fiercely independent of Washington and safeguarded Indian sovereignty with a zeal inherited from her father. Provocative and suggestive, this script planned as the second of a series was never completed. The Assassination is published here for the first time and completes Ali’s trilogy, with The Leopard and The Fox and A Banker For All Seasons. |
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By Blema S. Steinberg
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher were all described at various times as the 'only man' in their respective cabinets - a reference to their tough, controlling behaviour. What explains this type of leadership style? In "Women in Power", Blema Steinberg describes the role that personality traits played in shaping the ways in which these three women governed. For each of her subjects, Steinberg provides a personality profile based on biographical information, an analysis of the patterns that comprise the personality profile using psychodynamic insights, and an examination of the relationship between personality and leadership style through an exploration of various aspects of political life - motivation, relations with the cabinet, the caucus, the opposition, the media, and the public. By bringing together some of the best work in psychological leadership studies and conventional personality assessments, "Women in Power" makes a significant contribution to the study of political leadership and the advancement of personality-in-leadership modelling. |
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By P. N. Dhar
Oxford University Press, USA
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As head of the prime minister's secretariat under Indira Gandhi, P. N. Dhar witnessed and participated in some of the major decisions made by Mrs. Gandhi, most notably the controversial 'Emergency', the merger of Sikkim with India, the Bangladesh war of 1971, and the Simla Agreement between India and Pakistan. Exceptionally well written, this book combines an insider's account of these years and a compelling analysis of the changing contours of India democracy. |
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By by the Editors of Executive Intelligence Review
New Benjamin Franklin House
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In this century Indira Gandhi was one of the very few outstanding political leaders, whose greatness the world recognized during her lifetime, but where universal history will prove, that she shaped its development at a point of dramatic crisis. This book is a reflection of the commitment of the people who love and respect her, that the intent of her murderers to destroy the great Indian nation, and defeat her fight for a new, just world economic order, will be condemned to fail. Helga-Zepp LaRouche |
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By Pupul Jayakar
Pantheon
Released: 1993-11-09
Hardcover (410 pages)
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An intimate of Gandhi describes how she grew from the shy daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru to political leader and reveals her thoughts, feelings, prejudices, insights, flaws, strengths, loves, and emotional entanglements. |
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By H.Y.Sharada Prasad
Ladybird Books Ltd
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By Pupul Jayakar
Viking
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