‘Indira is India’
Pratinav Anil, 23 April 2026
Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India
by Srinath Raghavan.
Yale, 367 pp., £25, May 2025,978 0 300 27852 1 Show More
by Srinath Raghavan.
Yale, 367 pp., £25, May 2025,
“... a qualm.Indira’s private life takes up only a few pages in this study of her premiership. Srinath Raghavan notes Feroze’s relationships, but not Indira’s liaison with M.O. Mathai, Nehru’s private secretary and, it turned out, a CIA informant. The story was deftly neutralised at the time, with Mathai being forced to resign, and became public ... ”
