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Indira Gandhi : an intimate biography (Record no. 3119)

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control field	GCWUF
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field	20171207075319.0
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	0140114629
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency	MAIN
Language of cataloging	ENG
Transcribing agency	MAIN
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	954.045092
Item number	JAY
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Jayakar, Pupul
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Indira Gandhi : an intimate biography
Statement of responsibility, etc	Jayakar, Pupul
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc	India :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc	Penguin Group,
Date of publication, distribution, etc	1992.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	xix,539 p. :
Other physical details	ill ;
Dimensions	22 cm.
Type of unit	P.B.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note	Include Index
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	When Indira Gandhi was brutally assassinated in 1984, she had lived through India's tortured liberation from the British Empire, the bloody era of partition, and the monumental difficulties associated with creating and sustaining the world's largest and most troubled democratic nation. This unique, intimate biography of one of the first women heads of state in modern history shows Indira growing from the shy daughter of the great Jawaharlal Nehru to the accomplished politician she eventually became. Very few people knew Indira beyond the facade, and there has been nothing written about her that illumines the conflicting aspects of her character: aloof but charming; lonely but ferocious in defense of her own - particularly her son Sanjay; sensitive and cultivated but capable of cold arrogance; devoted to her nation but blind to some of the cruelties she inflicted; a warm mother and grandmother but a calculating politician. A friend of Indira's for more than thirty years, Pupul Jayakar is uniquely qualified to assess and illuminate this complex woman in depth. Jayakar reveals Indira's thoughts and feelings, her loves and emotional entanglements, her blunders and her great courage. She is also able to situate the Nehru family in the context of modern Indian history in a way that is vivid to the Western reader. In Indira Gandhi, Pupul Jayakar gives us a penetrating but balanced account of one of the twentieth century's most remarkable women, a towering figure whose virtues and vices will be debated for a long time to come.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term	India
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term	Prime ministers
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term	Gandhi, Indira, 1917-1984
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term	Politics and government
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Source of classification or shelving scheme	Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type	Books

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		Dewey Decimal Classification			Non-fiction	LRC	LRC	General Stacks	07/12/2017	Purchased	859.27		954.045092 JAY	B0043172	07/12/2017	07/12/2017	Books