1970’s IndiaA look at the context of our novel in photos
Air India
Air India First Class Lounge
BollywoodBollywood films in the 1970’s featured the tough guy movies of Amitabh Bachchan pitured who fought off all the bads with his fists like in the films Deewar and Zanjeer. The heroines were actresses like Zeenat Aman who were whip-weilding as well as batting her eyes to crush the villains. These action films with their karate killers and femme fatales were the big draw in India in the 1970’s.
Workers in Faridibad
Steve Jobs Visited and stayed for 7 months
Hippy Movement
They only visited in 1968
Indian Refugees From Uganda Arrive in England After Being Expelled by General Idi Amin
Chipko Movement
Started in 1973. It was an organized resistance to the destruction of forests spread throughout India and came to be known the Chipko movement. The name comes from the word ‘embrace’, as the villagers hugged the trees, and prevented the contractors from felling them.
Indira Ghandi
The Indian Prime Minister (left) meeting with the Shah of Iran Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi and Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi during the latters' State visit to India in 1970.
Political and Economic Change
Political Unrest
The Emergency
The 1976 arrest of socialist labour leader George Fernandes, who raises his shackled hand defiantly in what became an iconic image of the Indian Emergency.
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