The accidental prime minister : the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh

Author/Creator:

Baru, Sanjaya, author

Publication/Creation:

Gurgaon, India : Penguin Books India/Viking, 2014

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

The accidental prime minister : the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh / Sanjaya Baru

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Manmohan Singh,1932-
Prime ministers--India--Biography
India--Politics and government--21st century

Description/Summary

Summary:

The Accidental Prime Minister is Baru's account of what it was like to manage public opinion for Singh while giving us a riveting look at Indian politics as it happened behind the scenes. As Singh's spin doctor and trusted aide for four years, Baru observed up close Singh s often troubled relations with his ministers, his cautious equation with Sonia Gandhi and how he handled the big crises from managing the Left to pushing through the nuclear deal. In this book he tells all and draws for the first time a revelatory picture of what it was like for Singh to work in a government that had two centres of power. Insightful acute and packed with political gossip, The Accidental Prime Minister is one of the great insider accounts of Indian political life and a superb portrait of the Manmohan Singh era.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xvi, 301 pages ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990035601320302486

ISBN:

9780670086740
0670086746

OCLC Number:

879323860

Barcode:

010002772040