Author: Kotamraju Narayana RaoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Nehru Dynasty
Author: Kotamraju Narayana RaoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Nehrus and the Gandhis
Author: Tariq AliPublisher: Picador USA
ISBN: 9780330438391
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Nehrus are a dynasty without precedent in the modern world; nowhere else and at no other time in recent history has a single family wielded such enduring and pervasive power over the country – and the electorate – they serve. From Jawaharlal Nehru to his daughter, Indira Gandhi, and from there, via Sanjay and Rajiv to – most recently – Sonia, this remarkable family have consistently established both the parameters and rhetoric of India’s political development. In the eighties, Tariq Ali made several trips to India, meeting a wide range of political and public figures, including Mrs Gandhi, and leaders of both the Congress and Opposition parties. The Nehrus and the Gandhis, first published in 1985, was the result. Now updated to include the most recent chapters in India’s political history, it remains as relevant as ever, offering an intricate and revealing portrait of power, seen through the continued rise – and eyes – of one family.
The Nehrus and the Gandhis
Author: Tariq AliThe Dynasty
Author: Jad AdamsPublisher: NAL
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
India, the largest democracy in the world, has for almost all its existence been ruled by the members of a single family. This biography tells of the Nehru family's 'tryst with destiny', a story of suffering and assassination that is not yet over.
Rajiv Gandhi
Author: Nicholas NugentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Six years ago, Rajiv Gandhi found himself at the helm of a country of 800 m people. A former airline pilot, he had never been a cabinet minister and, indeed, had never aspired to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, Jawarharlal Nehru, and his mother, Indira Gandhi.
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
Author: Katherine FrankPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007372507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century (voted Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll, 2000)
Nehru
Author: Judith M. BrownPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317874765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no tradition of democratic politics.
Dynasty to Democracy
Author: The Dynasty
Author: S. S. GillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The first 40 years of post-independence India were dominated by the Nehru-Gandhi family. This biography covers this era in all its bewildering diversity and shows the decisive contribution made by the dynasty towards the shaping of modern India.
Democratic Dynasties
Author: Kanchan ChandraPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131659212X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Dynastic politics, usually presumed to be the antithesis of democracy, is a routine aspect of politics in many modern democracies. This book introduces a new theoretical perspective on dynasticism in democracies, using original data on twenty-first-century Indian parliaments. It argues that the roots of dynastic politics lie at least in part in modern democratic institutions - states and parties - which give political families a leg-up in the electoral process. It also proposes a rethinking of the view that dynastic politics is a violation of democracy, showing that it can also reinforce some aspects of democracy while violating others. Finally, this book suggests that both reinforcement and violation are the products, not of some property intrinsic to political dynasties, but of the institutional environment from which those dynasties emerge.