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The Lives of Indira Gandhi

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Politics, even in the 1990s, is still largely an old boys’ club. Women politicians are anomalies with the result that they receive a good deal more media and biographical attention than their male counterparts. Gender — rather than power, influence or statecraft — is the decisive factor in this coverage. No one has ever suggested that Indira Gandhi, the third Prime Minister of India, was a greater leader than the first Indian Prime Minister: her father, Jawaharlal Nehru. Indira Gandhi, nevertheless, has been the subject of nearly twice as many biographies.

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  1. Katherine Frank
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  1. Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Pauline Polkey (Lecturer in women’s writing and feminist theory) (Lecturer in women’s writing and feminist theory)

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Frank, K. (1999). The Lives of Indira Gandhi. In: Polkey, P. (eds) Women’s Lives into Print. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374577_11

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