Abstract
On the morning of 2 November 1984, as organised mobs continued their attacks on Sikhs in New Delhi and elsewhere, the story on the front page of The Statesman drove home the fact that India was plunged into its gravest crisis since independence. The newspaper, perhaps the most respected daily in India, reported that a serving Sikh major-general had been arrested for his part in Mrs Gandhi’s assassination two days earlier.
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Jeffrey, R. (1994). Explosion. In: What’s Happening to India?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23410-3_7
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