LEADERS POLITICIANS CITIZENS

BALASAHEB THACKERAY. SHEILA DIKSHIT. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM. NAMDEO DHASAL. S. JAIPAL REDDY. These are just some of the 5 dynamos whose lives and times are captured in this collection of profiles of some of the most prominent actors in independent India's political theatre.Game-changers Pranab Mukherjee P.V. Narasimha Rao and Jyoti Basu; crowd-pulling swashbucklers Sheikh Abdullah and Laldenga; crusaders such as Kanshi Ram and Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madani; mavericks Chandraswami Amar Singh and Ajit Kumar Jogi; charismatic leaders like Madhavrao Scindia and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed; possessors of star power including Jayalalithaa Vinod Khanna and M. Karunanidhi; and skilful navigators like Ahmed Patel and V.C. Shukla – all find place in this incontestable list. Traversing ideologies and bringing into focus the human facet of governments Leaders Politicians Citizens presents a compelling history of Indian democracy and provides riveting insights into the evolution of its political culture.