Situation in New Delhi

Sahgal, Nayantara

Penguin??Books

Storm in Chandigarh

How did Indira Gandhi reach the pinnacle of Indian politics? Did India move away from freedom under her leadership? What kind of woman was she?  Indira Gandhi made unorthodox use of power and possessed a highly individual style of functioning. In this book, Nayantara Sahgal persuasively argues that authoritarianism was the inevitable outcome of Indira s personality and temperament. Her leadership marked a drastic break with the democratic tradition of her family and Indian politics. During her regime, the political landscape of India underwent profound changes. The Emergency of 1975 77 was used to promote her son Sanjay as her ultimate successor. The entry of her elder son, Rajiv, into politics after Sanjay s death, and his immediate political prominence showcased Indira s essential belief in her family s right to rule.  Nayantara Sahgal s personal knowledge of her cousin, in combination with her unparalleled access to letters exchanged within the Nehru family, makes for a striking and insightful analysis of Indira s tryst with political power and an unusually penetrating psychological and political portrait from an intimate family viewpoint.

Indira Gandhi: Tryst With Power [Nov 15, 2017] Sahgal, Nayantara

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin India

Sahgal, Mistaken Identity. A fable concerning the implacable workings of Karma.

Mistaken Identity

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Sceptre

For the eminent scientist Sir Nitin Basu, spending the summer of 1914 at a remote hill station in the Himalayas, the arrival of a single Danish woman hired as his secretary by his sister didi is as alarming as an invasion. Tall, fair, unconventional Miss Anna Hansen is a feminist, a woman ahead of her times, enjoying a year of travel before her marriage to an English diplomat. Before her short stay in Himapur is over, she will have come dangerously close to loving another man, stumbled on the evidence, she believes, of a secret crime, and been shaken by a violet and mysterious death.  Making up the small European community in Himapur are the missionary Marlowe Croft, a bullying, obsessive man determined at all costs to build a Christian church in the hills; his shrill, foolish wife Lulu, the chief obstacle to his mission; and the district Magistrate Henry Brewster, an enigmatic figure, ill-at-ease with the imperial authority he represents. Deserted by his wife Stella, for whom ge gave up his dreams of a new political life in England, he is still consumed with love for her. Anna s fascination with rewster, her involvement in India s growing political unrest, lead her to reconsider her future, but a horrific accident and a startling find in a forest glade make it impossible for her to stay. Tormented by unanswered questions, Anna makes her plans for departure, as the intimate tragedies of Himapur are swept away by the cataclysm of war.  Plans for Departure is both a love story and mystery, set in a continent poised for revolution and a world on the edge of war. Nayantara Sahgal has a written a new novel of haunting power and superb craftsmanship, rich in intrigue, gentle humour and exquisite observation....

Plans for Departure

Genre Fiction

W W NORTON & CO @

The lives of two very different New Delhi women are traced from the period following Indira Gandhi's declaration of the Emergency through to each woman's discovery that power and riches are useless substitutes for love

Rich Like Us

Poetry

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Storm in Chandigarh: A novel,

Chatto&Windus

Indira Gandhi, Her Road to Power

Ungar Pub. Co.

Spanning four generations and chiefly set in the darkening universe of New Delhi during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Emergency (1976-77), "Rich Like Us" runs on the oddly parallel life tracks of two very different women. A time promising wealth for the corrupt, but terrifying with sterilization for the poor and jail for the critical, the Emergency changes forever the lives of both women. Sonali and Rose, one Indian, the other cockney English, are deeply devoted friends. Because of her outmoded honesty, Sonali’s successful civil service career is terminated, waking her from her dream of a new India. For Rose, second wife of a Hindu businessman, the corruption of society sets the scene for the last episode of her long adjustment to her adopted home.

Rich Like Us (New Directions Paperbook, No. 665)

New Directions

Mistaken Identity [Jun 15, 2004] Sahgal, Nayantara

Mistakenly jailed for treason, Bhushan Singh, the son of a minor Raj, describes his priviledged world to his Communist cellmates

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