How Prime Ministers Decide (häftad, eng)

India''s prime ministers have taken decisions that changed the course of the country''s history. This book by Neerja Chowdhury, an award-winning journalist and political commentator, goes beyond the news headlines to provide an eye-opening account of how some of the most important political decisions in independent India were taken.

The author analyses the operating styles of the country''s prime ministers through the prism of six decisions of historic significance. These are as follows: the strategy that Indira Gandhi devised to return to power in 1980, after her humiliating defeat post the Emergency in 1977; the errors of judgment that led Rajiv Gandhi to undo the Supreme Court''s judgment in the Shah Bano case; V.

P. Singh''s implementation of the Mandal Commission Report to save his government which forever changed the face of contemporary politics; P. V. Narasimha Rao''s masterful indecision that resulted in the demolition of the Babri Masjid; the rapidly changing political scenarios that turned the avowed pacifist Atal Bihari Vajpayee into a nuclear hawk who greenlighted the testing of nuclear devices.

Format	Häftad
Omfång	608 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.
Utgivningsdatum	2023-10-01
ISBN	9789390652457