02897nam a22002897a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200220009110000290011324500320014226000400017430000310021436500730024552018980031865000300221665000270224665000260227365000260229965000250232565000250235070000310237594200120240699900190241895201700243720230830100111.0230830b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789390652457  cAL  aeng  223a320.954bCHOH  aNeerja Chowdhury9131447  aHow Prime Ministers Decide   aNew DelhibAleph Book Companyc2023  axxviii,578p.bHBc23x16cm.  2Political ScienceaBLCR-000041b800.00c₹d900.00e20%f22-08-2023  aIndia’s prime ministers have taken decisions that changed the course of the country’s history. This book by Neerja Chowdhury, an award-winning journalist and political commentator, goes beyond the news headlines to provide an eye-opening account of how some of the most important political decisions in independent India were taken.
The author analyses the operating styles of the country’s prime ministers through the prism of six decisions of historic significance. These are as follows: the strategy that Indira Gandhi devised to return to power in 1980, after her humiliating defeat post the Emergency in 1977; the errors of judgment that led Rajiv Gandhi to undo the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Shah Bano case; V. P. Singh’s implementation of the Mandal Commission Report to save his government which forever changed the face of contemporary politics; P. V. Narasimha Rao’s masterful indecision that resulted in the demolition of the Babri Masjid; the rapidly changing political scenarios that turned the avowed pacifist Atal Bihari Vajpayee into a nuclear hawk who greenlighted the testing of nuclear devices; and the mild and professorial Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as one of the country’s weakest prime ministers, who defied interest groups and foes within the political establishment to seal a historic nuclear deal with the United States—and upgraded the bilateral relationship to a new level.
Based on hundreds of interviews that the author conducted with prime ministers, key figures in the political establishment, bureaucrats, aides, policymakers, and even fixers—the book provides remarkable insights that have been gleaned over forty years of high-level reporting on the national political scene.
How Prime Ministers Decide is an unparalleled book about modern Indian politics which will change the way we view how prime ministers govern the country.  aPolitical Process9131436  aManmohan Singh9131437  aNarasimha Rao9131438  aIndira Gandhi9131439  aRajiv Gandhi9131440  aA B Vajpayee9131441  aCHOWDHURY (Neerja)9131442  2ddccBK  c228550d228550  00102ddc40708PSaALbALd2023-08-29eNavakarnataka Publications Pvt.Ltdg800.00l1o320.954 CHOHp076750r2024-02-16 00:00:00s2023-12-06v999.00w2023-08-30yBK