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Indira Gandhi: Grandeur in Failure
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
April 26, 1992| Author:
Warren Unna
| Copyright 1992 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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MOTHER INDIA
A Political Biography Of Indira Gandhi
By Pranay Gupte
Robert Stewart/Scribner's. 593 pp. $30
PRANAY GUPTE, an Indian expatriate long resident in New York,
has expanded upon earlier books on his native land to recount the
role of the Nehru-Gandhi family dynasty - from highly successful
lawyer Motilal, to Jawaharlal, to Indira, to Rajiv. And he
intertwines this with India's evolution from Britain's "Jewel in the
Crown" colony to its independence and prominence as the d...
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