The Indian President: An Insider's Account of the Zail Singh Years 1982-87 - Couverture rigide

Singh, K.C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9356295921 ISBN 13 : 9789356295926

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2023

Synopsis

"A study of the institution of the President of India, this book is based on the author's term as Deputy Secretary to the seventh president, Giani Zail Singh. In particular, it examines the President's role when authoritarian governments are voted in power. Things are all the more challenging for a president with a popular prime minister who has an overwhelming majority, as happened in the case of Zail Singh and Rajiv Gandhi. The book recounts how the guardrails painstakingly created by the first two presidents - Rajendra Prasad and S. Radhakrishnan - were partly resurrected by Zail Singh. Richly anecdotal and incisively observed, The Indian President makes a compelling case for why the Zail Singh years are crucial to understanding both the limits and the possibilities of the country's highest office."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

K.C. Singh joined the Indian diplomatic service in 1974 and retired in May 2008 as secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. Besides serving in Cairo, New York and Ankara, he was deputy secretary to the President of India (1983-87). He was Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (1999-2003) and to Iran (2003-05).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers India
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9356295921
• ISBN 13: 9789356295926
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Product Safety Manager; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; HarperCollins, Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper; Dublin 1; D01 C9W8; Irlande