1970s India

A look at the context

of our novel in photos

Air
India

Air India
First Class
Lounge

Bollywoo
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Bollywood films in the 1970s 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 whipweilding 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 1970s.

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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