In its first three months, the book has sold more than 16,000 copies, is in its third print run, and was the 1 non-fiction book in India. Narasimha Rao Transformed India is a book which I strongly recommend to every Indian out there, especially to the millennials. Narasimha Rao, Half-Lion, was published in June this year by Penguin India. Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his primary research focus is the political economy of India. Vinay Sitapati’s biography of the Indian prime minister P.V. He is also a professor at Ashoka University and writes for the Indian Express. Vinay Sitapati is author of Half-Lion: How P.V. This is a fantastic biography of a highly underrated Prime Minister, P.V Narasimha Rao, with so many facets of his life hietherto unknown or even suppressed. Narasimha Rao became the unlikely prime minister of India in 1991, he inherited economic catastrophe, violent insurgencies and a nation adrift.

Courtiers fawned, brokers promised access, and the writ of the queen ran unchallenged across the empire. Rather than representing India, the city regressed to its historical self. Sitapati shared key findings from Half-Lion, which Mint wrote “has all the ingredients of a good book: well written, informative, with the rigor of a diligent researcher.” Carnegie’s Milan Vaishnav moderated. Like Almost imperceptibly, the Old Delhi returned. Narasimha Rao Transformed India, provides new revelations on the Indian economy, nuclear program, foreign policy, and domestic politics.

Narasimha Rao Transformed India, attempts to give P V Narasimha Rao his rightful place in history. With exclusive access to Rao’s never-before-seen personal papers, Vinay Sitapati’s definitive biography, Half-Lion: How P.V. Academic and journalist Vinay Sitapati, in his recently published book Half Lion: How P.V. Despite numerous challenges-Rao lacked a majority in parliament and was deeply mistrusted even by leaders of his own party-he arguably reinvented India, both at home and abroad. Narasimha Rao became the unlikely prime minister of India in 1991, he inherited economic crisis, violent insurgencies, and a nation adrift.

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