Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
by Katherine Frank
UK, Canada, and Australia: HarperCollins, Hdb ISBN 0002556464;
USA: Houghton Mifflin, Hdb ISBN 039573097X
Frank's well-wrought biography of India's only
woman prime minister portrays Indira Ghandi as a strong-willed,
ruthless, and tragic figure. The only child of Jawaharlal
Nehru, India's first prime minister, Indira set out to uphold
his inclusive vision for her homeland. Frank shows how instead
Indira became a reviled despot, and left India a damaged country.
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