Rukhsana Sultana

Rukshana Sultana is an Indian socialite known for being one of Sanjay Gandhi's close associates during the state of Emergency in India between 1975 and 1977.[1][2][3] During this period she gained a lot of notoriety in leading Sanjay Gandhi's sterilization campaign in Muslim areas of old Delhi,[4][5],.,.[6][7] Ruksanaa is connected to a number of well known people from films, and media in India through birth and marriage.Her daughter is Amrita Singh, a leading Bollywood actress of 1980s.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Those were the days".
  2. ↑ "Emergency Duty".
  3. ↑ "THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES".
  4. ↑ Das, Veena. (Editor); Tarlo, Emma (2000). Violence and subjectivity (9th printing. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 266. ISBN 9780520216082.
  5. ↑ Tarlo, Emma (2001). Unsettling memories : narratives of the emergency in Delhi. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 38–39, 143. ISBN 9780520231221. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  6. ↑ Gwatkin, Davidson R. "Political will and family planning: the implications of India's emergency experience." Population and Development Review (1979): 29-59.
  7. ↑ French, Patrick (2011). India : a portrait (1st U.S. ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 43. ISBN 978-0307272430. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  8. ↑ "Film Actress Amrita Singh - Bollywood Star Amrita Singh - Amrita Singh Biography - Amrita Singh Profile". Iloveindia.com. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
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