Indira The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

Name: Indira The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
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ISBN: 9780395730973

ISBN-10: 039573097X

ISBN-13: 9780395730973

Edition: 2001

Authors: Katherine Frank

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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.…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 1/7/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 592
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Katherine Frank's most recent biography, "A Passage to Egypt: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon", earned a rave front-page review in the "New York Times Book Review". Frank is also the author of "A Voyager Out", a life of Mary Kingsley, & "A Chainless Soul", a life of Emily Bronte, which was hailed by New York Daily News. Her work on "Indira" involved six years of extensive travel & research.



List of Illustrations


Glossary


Acknowledgements



Indira Nehru



Descent from Kashmir



'Hua'



Breathing with Her Heels



Indu-Boy



Enter Feroze



In the Black Forest



A Veteran at Parting



The Magic Mountain



Indira Gandhi



Not a Normal, Banal, Boring Life



Things Fall Apart



Metamorphosis



Towards a Hat Trick



Prime Minister Gandhi



I am the Issue



Seeing Red



No Further Growing



Drastic, Emergent Action



The Rising Son



Witch-Hunt



Fault Lines



Another Amritsar



31 October 1984



After Indira


Epilogue


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index