Word: birla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shekhar warns, "history in India will take a revolutionary turn." That may be an exaggeration, but the left's increasing restiveness is becoming a problem for Indira. Only two days after the party meeting in Bombay came to an end, her government announced that the giant house of Birla, which is to Indian radicals what Dow Chemical is to the American variety, had been licensed to build a $75 million fertilizer plant in partnership with U.S. Steel. The National Herald, founded by Indira's father and now the unofficial organ of her wing of the Congress Party, condemned...