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    The Indian President: An Insider's Account of the Zail Singh Years
    The Indian President: An Insider's Account of the Zail Singh Years
    The Indian President: An Insider's Account of the Zail Singh Years
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    The Indian President: An Insider's Account of the Zail Singh Years

    By K.C. Singh

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins India
    Release dateMar 10, 2023
    ISBN9789356295933
    The Indian President: An Insider's Account of the Zail Singh Years
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    K.C. Singh

    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).

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