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Indira : the life of Indira Nehru Gandhi / Katherine Frank.
Van Pelt Library DS481.G23 F73 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frank, Katherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gandhi, Indira, 1917-1984.
- Gandhi, Indira.
- Prime ministers--India--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- India.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 567 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
- Summary:
- A graceful narrative with all the intrigue of "The Jewel in the Crown" brings life to the first full, unbiased biography of Indira Nehru Gandhi, one of the most influential leaders in the world. Two 8-page photo inserts.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Indira Nehru
- 1 Descent from Kashmir 3
- 2 'Hua' 13
- 3 Breathing with Her Heels 34
- 4 Indu-Boy 50
- 5 Enter Feroze 72
- 6 In the Black Forest 100
- 7 A Veteran at Parting 115
- 8 The Magic Mountain 146
- Part 2 Indira Gandhi
- 9 Not a Normal, Banal, Boring Life 167
- 10 Things Fall Apart 193
- 11 Metamorphosis 226
- 12 Towards a Hat Trick 260
- Part 3 Prime Minister Gandhi
- 13 I am the Issue 289
- 14 Seeing Red 325
- 15 No Further Growing 348
- 16 Drastic, Emergent Action 371
- 17 The Rising Son 390
- 18 Witch-Hunt 415
- 19 Fault Lines 440
- 20 Another Amritsar 465
- 21 31 October 1984 484
- 22 After Indira 495.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-544) and index.
- ISBN:
- 039573097X
- OCLC:
- 46660629
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