Rajiv Gandhi and Rama's Kingdom.
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Hardback in black boards, slight bumping, otherwise in Fine condition, dustwrapper has small crease on back cover, otherwise also in Fine condition. First edition, pp194, maps of India on endpaper...
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Hardback in black boards, slight bumping, otherwise in Fine condition, dustwrapper has small crease on back cover, otherwise also in Fine condition. First edition, pp194, maps of India on endpapers, index. Mehta begins by describing the politics that swirled around Indira Gandhi during the last two years of her life - in particular, the growing hostility among Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims. He tells of the Sikhs' demand for special status, their uprising against the Hindus in the Punjab, the government's retaliation, the murder of Mrs. Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards, and the anti-Sikh rioting that followed. He goes on to reconstruct the circumstances surrounding Rajiv's election as his mother's successor; the change in atmosphere from optimism to disenchantment as Rajiv's government became mired in a kickback scandal; Rajiv's loss of office to V. P. Singh in the 1989 election; and his murder by a secessionist Tamil group from Sri Lanka in 1991.
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ISBN: 0300060386
ISBN-13: 9780300060386
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 1994
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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