The great conciliator : Lal Bahadur Shastri and the transformation of India /
Sanjeev Chopra
- New Delhi : Bloomsbury , 2025.
- xviii, 369 pages : illisturations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical and reference index.
1. Mughalsarai: Circa 1900 -- 2. The Glamour of Pax Britannica -- 3. Benares, Harishchandra High School and Nishkameshwar Mishra -- 4. Kashi Vidyapeeth: 1921-25 -- 5. Servants of the People Society -- 6. Grihastha Ashram -- 7. Allahabad -- 8. The Youngest General Secretary of UPPCC -- 9. Shastri as a Legislator -- 10. Lull Before the Storm: Individual Satyagraha and the Quit India Movement -- 11. The Quit India Movement -- 12. Parliamentary Secretary and Minister under G.B. Pant -- 13. New Delhi -- 14. The Helmsman of the Railways -- 15. Three Portfolios in Nehru’s Third Ministry -- 16. India’s Dangerous Decades ---- 17. Dragon at the Doorstep -- 18. The Kamaraj Plan -- 19. Minister Without Portfolio -- 20. The End of Nehru’s Era -- 21. Shastri’s India Versus Ayub’s Pakistan -- 22. Jai Kisan -- 23. The White Revolution and Shastri -- 24. The Difficult Reconciliation on Language -- 25. On the World Stage -- 26. Administrative Reforms and Institutional Innovations -- 27. No Confidence Motions -- 28. Rann of Kutch and the Formation of the BSF -- 29. Foiling the Infiltration -- 30. Towards Lahore -- 31. Chinese Checkers -- 32. Ceasefire: Shastri’s Moral and Semantic Victory in the UNSC -- 33. The Finest Hour -- 34. The Tashkent agreement -- 35. Tragedy Follows Triumph.