The turbulent years 1980-1996
- New Delhi Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd. 2016
- x, 221 p.
Book Description A sharp insiders account of the many political and economic decisions that shaped the future of modern India The Turbulent Years opens in the 1980s. Sanjay Gandhi is dead under unexpected, tragic circumstances; not many years later, Indira Gandhi is assassinated; Rajiv Gandhi, 'the reluctant politician, abruptly becomes Indias Prime Minister. Pranab Mukherjee was witness to (and, sometimes, a participant in) the momentous events of the 1980s and the 1990s, a period that was indisputably the most turbulent in Indias post- Independence history. An insider, he sheds new light on every major political occurrence of the timeāfrom Rajiv Gandhis ascendance as Indias Prime Minister
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