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A Time of Transition: Rajiv Gandhi to The 21st Century by Mani Shankar Aiyar PDF

By Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar seems to be again to the alterations that experience taken position throughout the -Time of Transition' "the twenty years considering top Minister Rajiv Gandhi left workplace after the Lok Sabha elections of November 1989. Rajiv Gandhi was once the fourth leading minister of India in 4 many years of independence, however the final 20 years have obvious as many as 8 best ministers and a number of other extra governments. Accompanying the swap from single-party governance to the instability of coalition politics are significant modifications within the speed, trajectory or even the ambitions of nation-building. it really is those contentious transitions which are mirrored within the 5 significant topics of this quantity: Democracy, Secularism, Socialism, Nonalignment, and Neighbourhood coverage. Mani Shankar Aiyar used to be either a witness to, and a reluctant player in, those approaches of switch: as joint secretary in Rajiv Gandhi's leading minister's workplace, as an MP in view that 1991, and this day as a cupboard minister within the United revolutionary Alliance govt. His columns for the Indian exhibit are analytical and shiny commentaries on their instances, written within the author's inimitable kind. This assortment sheds gentle on a severely major period in modern India.

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