Rajiv Gandhi to Narendra Modi (Record no. 25743)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01790 a2200145 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789353282981 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 370.973 |
| Item number | VEN-R |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Venkateshwar Rao, Parsa |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Rajiv Gandhi to Narendra Modi |
| Sub Title | : broken polity, flickering reforms |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Sage Publications |
| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 245p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | For the first time, the political story of India from the mid-1980s to the second decade of the present century is reconstructed through the first-person narratives of political leaders, revealing their inmost thoughts in their public utterances, offering weak arguments for their unforgivable lapses, speaking in eloquent terms of their achievements and sometimes showing uncharacteristic humility in what they said in their public speeches, in the Lok Sabha, in their blogs.<br/><br/>From Rajiv Gandhi’s confession about how and why he came into politics, Narendra Modi’s graphic description of his inner agony during the Gujarat riots, Vajpayee’s disarming confession about Nehru, Narasimha Rao’s stoic stance in a letter to his childhood friend, Advani’s confessions in the Lok Sabha about why television was pressed into service during the Kargil War, what emerges is a historical drama of Shakespearean range and an intensity which is more than what brilliant historians and acute political analysts can hope to achieve. The book shows that the first draft of history is found in the words of politicians in parliament and in the government. It captures the immediacy of history-in-the-making, and the palest platitudes of politicians that acquire rare poignancy. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Politics and government |
| Form subdivision | Political and social views |
| -- | Educational change |
| -- | Prime ministers |
| -- | Gandhi, Rajiv, 1944-1991 |
| -- | Modī, Narendra, 1950- |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Bill Date | Full call number | Accession Number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 2019-12-26 | OP | 328.50 | 2019-12-20 | 370.973 VEN-R | 50556 | 450.00 | 2019-12-26 | Books |