India 1960-2000

By prwilliams
  • Arundhati Roy Born

    Arundhati Roy Born

    Arundhati Roy is born in Shilong, India (present day Meghayala).

  • Sino Indian Border Conflict

    Short border war with China that India loses.

  • Move to Kerela

    Roy moves to Kerela after her parents divorce.

  • Death of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru

    Jawaharlal Nehru died of a sickness after his health had been declining.
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    Indo-Pakistan War of 1965

    Short amount of conflicts between Pakistan and India leading to about 13,000 total deaths.

  • Indira Gandhi Becomes The New Prime Minister

    Only women Prime Minister that India has ever had. She was the daughter of the former prime minister Nehru.

  • Indo-Soviet Treaty of Peace

    India signs a twenty year peace deal with the Soviet Union
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    Indo-Pakistan War of 1971

    Short military confrontation between India and Pakistan.

  • The "Smiling Buddha"

    Inda successfully tests its first nuclear bomb code named the "Smiling Buddha"

  • Roy Attends Corpus Christa school

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    The Emergency in India

    A State of Emergency declared by Indira Gandhi in India after India being found guilty of electoral malpractice. The emergency suspended fundamental human rights and allowed India's leaders to put nearly 1,000 political opponents in prison without a trial.
  • Roy Attends Lawrence School, Loveldale

    Roy Attends Lawrence School, Loveldale

    Known as a top 10 boarding school in India
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    Chaudhary Charan Singh Shortly Becomes Prime Minister

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    Indira Gandhi Returns to Power in India

  • Roy Attends School of Planning and Architect in Delhi, India

    Roy Attends School of Planning and Architect in Delhi, India

    Meets first husband Gerard da Chuna there.
  • Roy and Krishen

    Roy and Krishen

    Roy meets Pradip Krishen, a filmmaker whom she would later marry. Krishen offers Roy a role as a goatherded in his award winning movie, Massey Sahib.

  • Indira Gandhi Assasination

    Indira Gandhi was killed by her Sikh bodyguard. Her assasination led to four days fo riots in which about 8,000 Sikh's were killed.
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    Rajiv Gandi Prime Minister of India

    Rajiv Gandhi successes Indira Gandhi as prime minister until his congress is defeated in general election in 1989.

  • Bhopal Disaster

    A gas leak within India leading to 8,000 deaths in two weeks and 8,000 more over time.
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    Indian Intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War

  • Rajiv Gandhi's Assasination

    Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by sympathists to opposition.
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    Roy Writes "God of Small Things"

  • Demolition of the Babri Masjid

    300,000 Hindu's destroyed a mosque at a rally organized by the VHP and BJP parties (right-wing). Created several months of Hindu-Muslim conflicts within India where at least 2,000 died as a result.
  • God of Small Things Published

    God of Small Things Published

    The book "God of Small Things" would become a New York Times Best Seller and was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction. The book gave Roy international fame.

  • BJP Forms Coalition Government

    Right-wing coalition government.
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    More Nukes

    India tests more nuclear weapons.

  • Brief War with Pakistan

  • Odisha Cyclone

    The largest tropical cyclone that has ever been recorded in the Northern Indian Ocean. Killed somewhere between 9,000 to 30,000 people.

  • Bill Clinton Peaceseeking

    Bill Clinton visits India seeking peacekeeping.
  • Roy Awarded Sydney Peace Prize

    Roy Awarded Sydney Peace Prize

  • Roy Wins Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writer