Lal krishna advani biography books
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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-07T18:14:56Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2016-11-07T18:14:56Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2004-10-27 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://lib.bjplibrary.org/jspui/handle/123456789/247 | - |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.title | Lal Krishna Advani | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
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My Country My Life
My Country My Life is an autobiographical book by L. K. Advani, an Indian politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004, and was the Leader of the Opposition in the 15th Lok Sabha. The book was released on 19 March 2008 by Abdul Kalam, the eleventh President of India. The book has 1,040 pages and narrates autobiographical accounts and events in the life of Advani. It became the best seller book in the non-fiction category and Advani joined Archer as a bestseller author. The book website claims the book sold an excess of 1,000,000 copies. The book alongside mentions the event in Indian politics and India's history from 1900 till date.
Summary and themes
My Country My Life is a selfportrait of India's leading political personality — L.K. Advani. This book covers, chronologically, most of all the major and minor events in the life of Advani. My Country My Life presents L.K. Advani's memoirs in five phases.
Phase One - Sindh and India - An unbreakable bond (1927-47)
It describes Advani's early life in Sindh, narrating the heart-rending story of India's blood-soaked partition into two separate countries — India and Pakistan — when Britain's colonial rule came to an end. He was one of the millions of people who migrated from Pakistan to India. After giving a fascinating socio-spiritual history of Sindh, Advani describes his life at home and school in Karachi (which he calls his ‘favourite city’). He also writes about two transformative influences on his life: the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a nationalist organization which he joined as a swayamsevak (volunteer) at the age of 14, and Swami Ranganathananda, head of the Ramakrishna Math in Karachi and an erudite exponent of the philosophy of Swami Vivekananda, whom Advani first met in Karachi.
Phase Two - Journey from Sindh to Rajasthan (1947-57)
It deals with Advani's life as an RSS pracharak (organise 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India (born 1927) Bharat Ratna L. K. Advani Advani in 2022 L. K. Advani Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He is one of the co-founders of Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right-wing Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. He is the longest serving Minister of Home Affairs serving from 1998 to 2004. He is also the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha as well as the longest serving President of the BJP, the current ruling party of India. He was the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP during the 2009 general election.L. K. Advani
In office
29 June 2002 – 22 May 2004Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Preceded by Devi Lal (1991) Succeeded by Vacant In office
19 March 1998 – 22 May 2004Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Preceded by Indrajit Gupta Succeeded by Shivraj Patil In office
1 July 2002 – 26 August 2002Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Preceded by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Succeeded by Uma Bharati In office
29 January 2003 – 21 May 2004Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Preceded by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Succeeded by Manmohan Singh In office
22 May 2004 – 21 December 2009Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Preceded by Sonia Gandhi Succeeded by Sushma Swaraj In office
24 December 1990 – 25 July 1993Prime Minister Preceded by Rajiv Gandhi Succeeded by Atal Bihari Vajpayee In office
28 February 1998 – 23 May 2019Preceded by Vijay Patel Succeeded by Amit Shah Constituency Gandhinagar, Gujarat In office
26 November 1989 – 7 May 1996Preceded by Krishna Chandra Pant Succeeded by Rajesh Khanna Constituency New Delhi, Delhi In office
2004–2005Preceded by Venkaiah Naidu Succeeded by Rajnath Singh In office
1993–1998Preceded by Murli Manohar Joshi Succeeded by Kushabhau Thakre In office
1986–1991Preceded by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Succeeded by Murli Manohar Joshi In office
21 January 1980 – 7 April 1980Vice President Mohammad Hidayatullah Preceded by Kamalapati Tripathi Succeeded by P. Shiv Shankar In office
24 March 1977 – 28 July 1979Prime Minister Morarji Desai Preceded by Vidya Charan Shukla Succeeded by Purushottam Kaushik In office
3 April 1988 – 30 November 1989
Advani was born in Karachi and migrated to India during the Partition of India and settled down in Bombay where he completed his college education. Advani joined the RSS in 1941 at the age of fourteen and worked as a pracharak in Rajasthan. In 1951, Advani became a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founded by Syama Prasad Mookerjee and performed various roles including in charge of parliamentary affairs, general secretary, and president of the Delhi unit.