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020 _a9780195656459
028 _aBrijwasi Book Distributors
_b;H-87,Lalita park ,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092
_c;BW/005824
_d;08/06/2020
082 _a954.045 DHA
100 _aP N Dhar
245 _aIndira Gandhi, the "emergency", and Indian democracy
_c/P N Dhar
260 _aNew Delhi ; New York
_b: Oxford University Press
_c, 2000.
300 _axii, 424 pages
_c; 22 cm
365 _b899
505 _a Home and school in Kashmir -- College in Delhi -- Among the Pathans of Pshawar -- Back home in Kashmir and Delhi -- In British Guiana -- Between academics and policy-makers -- The Prime Minister's office -- The Bangladesh crisis -- Mrs. Gandhi, Bhutto, and the Simla agreement -- The emergency: how it came about -- The merger of Sikkim -- My experience of the "emergency" -- Change of players and the last curtain -- Epilogue: democracy under stress, India since 1977.
520 _aThis is the first book to carry a detailed account of confidential negotiations between Indira Gandhi and Jayaprakash Narayan during the 'Emergency'. It also deals with the economic and political developments that fed into Indira Gandhi's declaration of an 'Emergency'. It provides a close picture of Mrs. Gandhi's trauma in relation to the Bangladesh refugee problem and the Bangladesh war, and later in relation to her son Sanjay Gandhi. In its account of the confidential negotiations between Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto over the Simla Agreement, it offers unrecorded information which is likely to provoke strong reactions in both India and Pakistan." "This book will interest general readers and all who wish to understand contemporary Indian affairs and politics
650 _aHistory
655 _aIndia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1977.
700 _aP N Dhar
942 _cBOOK