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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