by Kuldip Nayar
struggle for Pakhtoonistan, 49, 208
Khan, Liaquat Ali, 39, 41, 45, 49, 63, 72, 408
Khan, Mohammed Ayub, 53, 105-108, 115, 120-122, 133, 143, 147, 150, 158-160, 164, 166-168, 175, 188, 190, 200, 208-211, 234, 373, 408
Khan, Sikander Hayat, 18, 19
Khan, Yahya, 188-189, 192-194, 198-201, 209, 409
Khilafat movement, 25
Khurshid, K.H., 8, 16, 36, 133, 134
as Jinnah’s secretary, 8, 16, 36
and president of Azad Kashmir, 133-134
Kidwai, Rafi Ahmed, 41, 59, 83
Kissinger, Henry, 193, 196, 235
Kosygin, Alexei, 153, 157, 159-162, 164-165, 175, 184, 211
Kothari, Rajni, 273
Krishnamachari, Tiruvallur Thattai (TTK), 138, 144, 15, 169
exit from the Shastri government, 158, 169
minister in Nehru’s cabinet, 138
Lal, Bansi, 226, 229, 248, 251, 258-259, 263-264, 269
Lal, Devi, 267, 271, 312, 314-315, 334-335
as deputy prime minister, 315
Language Commission report, 95-96
Liberhan Commission, 338, 345-347
Rao’s testimony before, 346
Limaye, Madhu, 75, 246, 264, 270-271, 345
Lok Sabha election,
of 1977, 255-256
in 1980, 272
in 1989, 311-312, 314
of 1991, 341, 370-371
of 2004, 378
Lokpal bill, 386, 400-401
Lone, Abdul Ghani, 316
Longowal, Harcharan Singh, 281
Mahajan, Meherchand 55, 62
Mahajan, Pramod, 364-365
Mahalanobis, P.C., 127
Maharaja Hari Singh, 60, 61, 408
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 382
Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA), 229-230
Maintenance of Internal Security Bill, 180
Malik, Yasin, 318, 341, 343, 353
Mandal Commission, 271, 314, 335-337, 345
protests against, 335-337
Manekshaw, S.H.F.J. (Gen.), 194-195, 197-198
Mathai, M.O., 138, 221-222
Mehta, Balwant Rai, 140, 166
Menon, Krishna, 17, 41, 48, 53, 75, 104, 113, 117, 120, 131, 158, 171-172
Menon, V.P., 42, 45, 46, 71
Mountbatten, Edwina, 45-47
influence on Nehru, 46-47
Mountbatten, Louis (Lord), 12-14, 23, 36, 38, 40-49, 51-55, 60-65, 67, 71-73, 104, 408
partition plan of, 45, 46, 51-52
Mudaliar, Lakshmanaswamy, 97-98
Muivah, T., 91-92
Mukherejee, Sabyasachi, 333
Mukherjee, Pranab, 286, 297, 356, 361, 386
Mukherjee, Shyama Prasad, 13, 43
Mulgaonkar, S., 82, 134, 223, 310
Mumbai,
attack on 26 November 2008, 383-384
blasts, 350, 384
riots, 348
Musharraf, Parvez, 217, 306, 372-373
role in Kargil war, 372-373
N.N. Vohra Committee Report, 366
Nagaland issue, 88-96, 399
Namboodiripad, E.M.S., 101, 172
Nanda, Gulzarilal, 124, 138, 145, 147, 171
Narayan, Jayaprakash, 28, 86, 89, 125-126, 140, 156, 189, 218-223, 235, 247-249, 254-255, 259, 264, 334, 356, 399
detention of, 250
disillusionment on Janata government’s performance, 266
message of parivartan, 221, 223, 225, 227, 266, 269-271, 275, 404
movement against corruption, 221
Narain, Lala Jagat, 283, 290
assassination of, 283, 290
Narain, Raj, 226, 243, 272, 274
filed case against Indira Gandhi’s election, 226, 243
Nath, Kamal, 250, 253, 257-258, 260, 272, 282
National Advisory Committee (NAC), 381, 383
National Democratic Alliance (NDA), 356, 371, 379
Nayar, Kuldip (The Author), authored,
Distant Neighbours¸ 16, 41, 155, 216, 237
India after Nehru, 221-222
In Jail, 239
The Judgment, 222, 257-258
A Report on Afghanistan, 276
Without Fear, 358
debut in English journalism, 76, 78
dismissal from Anjam, 75
first meeting with Nehru, 129
founded All-India Urdu Editors’ Conference, 176
home and family life in Sialkot, 1-5
as India’s High-Commissioner, 47, 78, 86, 89, 170, 235, 319-321, 327, 331, 333-340
interaction with Sikhs in UK, 325-326
at Mrs Thatcher’s lunch, 322
presenting credentials to the Queen, 321
resigned, 337
as information officer in Home Ministry, with, 13
Govind Ballabh Pant, 46, 50, 81-110
Jawahar Lal Nehru, 129-130
Lal Bahadur Shastri, 109-124, 129
interviewed,
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, 304-308
Sanjay Gandhi after 1977 defeat, 259-260
Z.A. Bhutto, 212-214
invitation to RSS shakha, 329
jailed, 203, 232, 236-237
life in jail, 237
journey from Sialkot to Delhi, 6-13
love for Urdu, 176-177
master’s degree in journalism from America, 77
meeting with,
Bhindranwale, 281
General Ayub Khan, 209
Khan Abdul Ghaffar khan, 208
Lord Romsey, 47
Mountbatten, 51-52
Nelson Mandela, 353, 354
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, 331 332
Salman Rushdie, 332-333
Sheikh Abdullah during Emergency, 245-246
quarrel with Mrs Gandhi, 232-233
as Rajya Sabha member, 355-370
release from jail, 240-241
sacked from Indian Express, 279-280
in Tashkant with Shastriji, 159-166
visit to,
Dhaka, 201
Nepal with Shastri, 112
Pondicherry, 74
worked with,
Anjam, 1, 15, 67, 75
Indian Express¸ 220
Planning Commision, 124
the Press Information Bureau (PIB), 78-80
the Statesman, 22, 175-180
the Times (London), 275
the United States Information Service (USIS), 77
United News of India, 127, 134-137
Wahadat, 77-78
Nehru, Arun, 297-298, 299, 314
Nehru, B.K., 116, 117, 150, 153
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 6, 8, 13, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33-58, 59-75, 83, 88-108, 110-136, 137, 138-144, 146, 152, 156, 157, 158, 159, 169, 172, 174, 180, 182, 184, 188, 190, 208, 218, 219, 221, 313, 342, 354, 360, 364, 381, 382, 385, 387, 390, 395, 398, 404, 409
and Ayub, 105-106, 121
joint statement on Kashmir, 121
meeting at Delhi Airport, 105-106
signed the Indus Waters Treaty, 106
concept of non-alignment, 108, 109
constitution of Citizen’s Council, 116, 232
cremation of, 138-141, 221
death, 137, 138
Discovery of India, 139
dream of united India, 43
efforts to protect the minorities, 12-14
and Jinnah, 26-27
difference between, 26-27
letter of Y. Menuhin to, 85
letter to Lady Mountbatten, 47
Objective Resolution of, 40
and Patel, 14, 28, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 51, 57, 62, 68, 69, 262
accepted Partition, 40, 48, 264
differences between, 57, 60, 69
policy for China, 110, 112-113
policy on Goa, 75
question of successor of, 131-132, 141-142
Nehru, Motilal, 70, 111
Niazi, A.A.K. (Lt Gen.), 195-198
Nijalingappa, N., 131, 171, 182, 185-187
N
oel-Baker, Philip, 64
Operation Bluestar, 281, 291, 295-298, 309, 324, 325
Operation Brasstacks, 303, 309
Operation Polo, 73
Operation Riddle, 155
Pakistan Resolution, 18-21, 52
Palkhivala, Nani, 155, 177, 178, 242, 243, 244
Pandit, Vijayalakshmi, 64, 104, 110, 129, 130, 138, 221, 228
Panikkar, K.M., 83
Pant, Govind Ballabh, 11, 46, 50, 70, 79-109, 128, 134, 135,
death, 109
meeting with Chou En-lai, 104
views on administrative reforms, 93-95
Pant, K.C., 86, 228, 285
Parliament House, terrorists attacked, 364
Patel, Vallabhbhai, 8, 12-14, 17, 28, 31, 34, 35, 37, 40-46, 48, 50, 51, 55-57, 60-62, 66-75, 83, 93, 102, 112, 140, 264, 344
created Indian Administrative Service (IAS), 68
as home minister, 41
the Iron Man of the Congress, 31
policy on Hyderabad, 74-75
resigned from the cabinet, 66
role in integration of states, 71
on the division of Bengal and Punjab, 42, 44
views on Kashmir, 60
warning on China, 69, 102, 112
Patil, S.K., 171, 182, 185
Patkar, Medha, 78, 383, 401, 402
Patwardhan, Achyut, 28
Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick, 33, 37
Phizo, A.Z., 89-92
Plan Balkan, 45
Pondicherry, 74
de facto charge to India of, 74
Postal Bill, 310
Prakasam, Tanguturi, 126
Prasad, Rajendra (Dr), 13, 57, 70, 82, 100
Prasad, Rajeshwar, 94, 109, 111, 134
Preventive Detention Act, 180, 191
Punjabi suba issue, 79-80, 85, 211, 280, 281
revival of, 85
Quattrocchi, Ottavio, 311-312
Quit India Movement, 28-29, 82, 143, 323
Radcliffe Report, 54
Radcliffe, Cyril, 53-55, 107
Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur, 189, 192-193, 197-204, 207, 213, 268, 409
Agartala conspiracy case against, 192-193
arrested, 189
as Awami League chief, 189
call for a free Bangladesh, 201
majority in National Assembly polls, 189
murdered with the whole family, 203
released, 200
secular appeal of, 190-191
Raja Sayed Mohammed Mehdi of Pirpur, 25
Rajagopalachari, C, 36, 52, 70, 96, 172
a crusade against Hindi, 96
Ram, Jagjivan, 124, 130, 182, 184, 185, 226, 254, 257, 259, 260, 265
Ram, Kanshi, 338
Ramanna, Raja (Dr), 357
Rangarajan, S. (Justice). 241, 242
Rann of Kutch, 149, 150, 156
ceasefire agreement, 150-151
Pakistan’s incursions in, 149
Rao, Narasimha, 250, 290, 291, 311, 340, 342, 348, 349, 363, 369, 382
as Prime Minister, 341
Reddy, N. Sanjiva, 172, 183, 185, 271, 342
Right to Education (RTE), 266
Right to Information Act (RTI), 383
Right to Information Bill (RTI), 359
Rolland, Romain, Jean Christopher, 392
Roy, B.C., 46, 57, 68, 85
Royal Indian Navy uprising, 31
S.R. Das Commission Report, 144
Sachar Report, 80
Sachar, Bhim Sen, 52, 80, 130, 238
Sachar, Rajinder, 80, 101, 240, 288, 355, 367, 402, 411
Sharif, Nawaz, 352, 369-374, 384, 410, 411
imprisonment, 373, 374
meeting Vajpayee at Lahore, 370
Santhanam, K., 144
Sarkaria, R.S., 285, 301
Sayeed, Mufti Mohammad, 316
kidnapping and release of his daughter Rubaiya, 316
Sehgal, Nayantara, 228
Shah Bano case, 309-310
Shastri, Lal Bahadur, 94, 109-170, 171, 172, 173, 182, 219, 262, 302, 390
demise of, 167-171
exit from Nehru government, 124
as home minister, 109, 110
Indira Gandhi’s ‘hostility’ towards, 131
Johnson’s invitation for a visit to the US to, 146-147
and language stir, 148
as Prime Minister, 138-170
proposal of no-war pact with Pakistan, 159-161
visit to Tashkent, 159
Shastri, Lalita, 111, 146, 167, 168, 172
Sheikh Hasina, 204, 205, 206, 207, 351
Shekhar, Chandra, 144, 253, 254, 269, 270, 314, 315, 333, 334, 336, 340, 341
a critic of Indira Gandhi, 253
as Janata Party president, 269, 270, 314, 334
Shimla,
agreement, 215-216
summit, 208-217
Shourie, Arun, 265, 357, 377
Shukla, Vidya Charan, 229, 234, 235, 245, 250, 251, 341
Singh Arjun, 297, 406
Singh, Arjan (Air-Marshal), 155, 288, 295
Singh, Baldev, 35, 39, 67
Singh, Charan, 84, 260, 262, 264, 267, 268, 269-273
as prime minister, 272-274
Singh, Giani Kartar, 35, 44
Singh, Harbaksh (Lt Gen.), 115, 152, 154, 155, 195
Singh, Kalyan, 344, 345, 347
Singh, Khushwant, 254, 333
Singh, L.P., 111, 118
Singh, Manmohan, 127, 207, 236, 271, 296, 341-343, 351, 356, 363, 368, 374, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383-86, 400, 402
as finance minister, 341-342, 382
performance of, 386-388
as prime minister, 379
and Sharm-el-Sheikh meeting with Geelani, 384, 385
Singh, K. Natwar, 48, 326
Singh, Master Tara, 9, 35, 44, 282
Singh, N.K., 262-263
Singh, Swaran, 106, 121-122, 142, 162, 164, 166, 190, 195, 196, 228, 246, 281, 285-286
Singh, V.P., 90, 312-316, 318-340, 351
fall of, 337
and his Mandal card, 335-340
as prime minister, 314-340
Singh, Giani Zail, 236, 282, 289, 290, 296, 297, 309-311
as Chief Minister of Punjab, 236
as President of India, 282, 289, 290, 296, 297, 309-311
stand-off with Rajiv Gandhi, 309-311
Sinha, Jagmohan Lal (Justice), 224, 225, 229
Sorabji, Soli, 241, 242
Soviet Attack on Afghanistan, 274-279
Special Economic Zones (SEZs), 383
Srikrishna Commission report, 348-349
Srikrishna, B.N. (Justice), 348-349
Staines, Graham, 381
States Reorganization Commission (SRC) report, 79, 83, 86, 91, 94
Suhrawardy, Shaheed, 38, 43, 191
Sunderji, K.S. (Gen.), 303, 308, 309, 311
Taliban, 276-279, 372, 377, 381
Tandon, Purushottam Das, 17, 97
Tarkunde, V.M., 241, 287, 401, 402, 404
Tashkent Declaration, 163-165, 167, 174, 211
Tata, JRD, 178-180
Thapar, P.N. (General), 113-118
Thapar, Romesh, 231, 232, 273
Thatcher, Margaret, 52, 235, 320-322, 327, 328, 332
Thimayya, K.S., 63, 120
Tohra, Gurcharan Singh, 283, 288-290
Tripathi, Kamlapati, 183, 225, 243
United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), 302-303
United Progressive Alliance (UPA),
constituted, 379
government, 381
dual-headed system in, 381
Uttar Pradesh,
split in, 85
Vajpayee, Atal Bihari, 167, 218, 258, 262, 268, 270, 275, 334, 336, 337, 347, 348, 350, 356, 361, 365, 368-377, 409
bus ride to Lahore, 370
fall of the government of, 350, 370
as Prime Minister, 368-370
Venkataraman, R., 166, 286, 320, 366, 367
Verghese, B.G., 249, 273
Victoria and Albert Mu
seum, 330
Wavell, Archibald, 40-42
Wilson, Harold, 150, 157
Wolf Ladejinsky report, 125
Yadav, Lalu Prasad, 219, 267, 336, 351, 354
Yadav, Mulayam Singh, 340, 352, 370, 379
Zargar, Mushtaq Ahmed, 372
Zia, Khalida, 204, 205, 206
Zia-ul-Haq, 276-279
killed, 278
Zia-ur-Rahman, 203-204
