Bofors scandal
1987 · Event
Swedish radio reports kickbacks to Indian officials in a $1.3 billion artillery deal; the scandal destroys Rajiv's 'Mr Clean' image and costs him the 1989 election.
On these timelines: India, Master
More from India
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- British Raj (1858)
- Gupta Empire (320)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
Around 1987
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)