Indira Gandhi's life was part of the unfolding history of India, intricately woven with India's past and future. In this book, written with the close co-operation of her subject, Pupul Jayakar seeks, to uncover the many personalities that lay hidden within Mrs. Gandhi. Much more than a political biography, the book reveals the complex personality of Indira Gandhi-her thoughts and feelings, her hates and prejudices, her insights and her faults, her loves and emotional entanglements. Full of startling insights, 'Indira Gandhi: A Biography' paints a magnificent portrait-at once empathetic and unprejudiced-of the twentieth century's most remarkable women.