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Although the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty alone has hogged the world’s attention so far – because of its uniquely dazzling dominance and durability – it is not the only one within India, leave alone the neighbouring countries of South Asia and beyond. Indeed, the number of clans striding the political stage in the region is rather large. The Senanayakes and the Bandarnaikes were entrenched in Sri Lanka well before Indira Gandhi first became India’s Prime Minister ...
Biographies of Indira Gandhi, written and published soon after her assassination in 1984, are outdated now because of the radical change in the public's estimation of her. Even then there was a chasm between the hostile sentiment of the large sections of the educated middle class and the adoration of the masses for her. This book throws entirely fresh light at the life and times of one of the greatest Prime Minister India has had.