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When Jimmy Carter visited the Indian village of Daulatpur (pop. 1,907), the hamlet was temporarily renamed Carter-Poori (Carter Place). The President perceived that the villagers, who had doubled their wheat production by introducing irrigation and better seed varieties, were "passionately attached to their rights and liberties." They are also realists. Nobody was vexed that Carter's gift to the village, a View-Master with slides of the presidential family, had wound up in the hands of the state's chief minister rather than those of the village council chief, the sarpanch. Nor did anybody seem very...
...insistence of Desai, who wanted to show that his government cares deeply about raising rural living standards, Carter and his wife visited the village of Daulatpur (pop. 1,907), about 15 miles south of New Delhi. It had temporarily been renamed Carter-Poori (Carter-Place) in the American's honor. After receiving the Hindu religious tilak mark on their foreheads, the Carters met villagers. A woman of 80, squatting against a white courtyard wall, did not stir as the President was introduced to her. Carter lightly held her hand. "You see now how they live," said Desai...
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