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Shivaji Sengupta
India Abroad
04-14-1995
A Portrait of Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India: A Life of Truth in Politics, by C.P. Srivastava, Published by Oxford University Press, Delhi. 1995. 447 pages with index.

The author, C.P. Srivastava, served as a joint secretary to Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri from 1964 to 1966. In the introduction, the author makes clear the circumstances of their acquaintance, beginning in 1952 with a courteous but brief first visit when Srivastava was an additional district magistrate in Lucknow and Shastri, U.P.'s home minister, to the latter's sudden death, a few hours after the momentous declaration of peace in Tashkent in ...

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