Lal Bahadur Shastri, 1964–1966
Leader at a Glance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6170771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rakesh Ankit (0000-0001-7772-5606, Loughborough University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-57 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Indian Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2321-0230 • E-ISSN: 2321-7472 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2321023020918062 |
| OpenAlex | W3020415138 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Lal Bahadur Shastri has been recently recalled as ‘the original accidental Prime Minister’ and ‘architect of India’s real surgical strike’. His sudden death has lately been the subject of a film, The Tashkent Files (2019) and a book, Your Prime Minister is Dead (2018). A memorial to him is the Government of India’s National Academy of Administration, named after him since 1972. And yet, there is less written on him directly, as against approaching him indirectly as (a) Jawaharlal Nehru’s successor, (b) leader during the 1965 India-Pakistan war amidst a food crisis and (c) peacemaker of the 1966 Tashkent agreement. This article tries to reconstruct, from some of his papers, a slice of Shastri’s political life that has either fallen through the crack between the larger preceding period of the Nehruvian 1950s and the larger succeeding period of Indira’s India or is resurrected in a reactionary, outsized opposition to these
Economic history · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Reactionary · Successor cardinal · History · Law · Mathematics · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
The Cold War in South Asia
The Sino-Soviet Split
The limits of peacemaking
From Kutch to Tashkent
The Making of a Non-Aligned Nuclear Power
After Nehru, What? Britain, the United States, and the Other Transfer of Power in India, 1960–64
Britain and the Indo-Pakistani Conflict
The Lessons of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
Just another border incident’
Defence without deterrence
Reforms by stealth’
Illusion and Reality in India's Foreign Policy
Agrarian crisis in India
The Congress 'System' in India
The Indo-Ceylon Pact and the "Stateless" Indians in Ceylon
Dynamics of Indian-Indonesian Relations
The Rise and Fall of Afro-Asian Solidarity
From ‘Grow More Food’ to ‘Miss a Meal
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah of Kashmir, 1965–1975
Transition in India
Political Neo-Malthusianism and the Progression of India's Green Revolution
South Asian Studies in Canada, and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
The Madras Anti-Hindi Agitation, 1965
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |