Events that shaped Indian History: Era of 1980s Thepunditspodcast

Republic is not defined by what we see, history decides that how countries are shaped. As India is approaching its 77th Independence day, we thought why not to jump and tell people the story of India.
So we launched a series of episodes, discussing decade wise the events that shaped India.
In this episode we discuss the era of 1980s. As we cannot discuss all the incidents, so in this episode of this series we focus on major events:
INC coming back to power

India winning cricket world cup

Khalistan movement & Operation Bluestar

Assassination of Indira Gandhi

Coming of Rajiv Gandhi

Shah Bano case

India-Sri Lanka Accord

Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi


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Reference material:
Indian History (Bipin Chandra), India After Gandhi (Ramachandra Guha),
The Emergency: A Personal History (Coomi Kapoor). Online source material: The Hindu archives, Hindustan times archives.

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