Indira Gandhi: Grandeur in Failure

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 26, 1992| Author: Warren Unna | Copyright information

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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