00872nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100002900041245002500070260003200095300003600127520056700163773003200730260514b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aReviewed by Madav Nayar   a‘The long 1970s’  aBiblio: A Review of Books    a30(7-8), Jul-Sep, 2025: p.11-11  aIndira Gandhi and the years that transformed Indian  by Srinath Baghavan  Allen Lane, Penguin random House India, 2025, 367pp. Rs. 899. ISBN 9780670086122. 


Indira Gandhi’s political innings concided with acrucial period in contemporary India’s history, what Raghavan calls “the long 1970s. Spanning the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s, it has an enduring impact on the political economy of postcolonial India. He further points out how the long 1970s was part of global history of student protest, energy crises and a turn towards neoliberals. –Reproduced   aBiblio: A Review of Books