Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fourteen Hours. Faced with these problems, most Indians beg for time that may not be available. India has been independent only twelve years, they say, and already the inequities of the caste system have been abolished-at least by law if not in practice. The sacredness of cows and the...
The China Crisis. The crisis with China displayed all of Nehru's weaknesses. It was a threat that Nehru, typically, first tried not to see, then ignored and then tried to argue away. This spring he dismissed news stories of Tibet's revolt against the Red Chinese as...
Some of India's difficulties can be laid at Nehru's door. He has tried, on occasion, to translate into action his vague and intensely personal theories about socialism, e.g., his plan to spread farm cooperatives across the land. Snapped the Indian Express: "This is not economic realism...
The Kisan. Nehru agreed to stay on, and apparently can hold the job as long as he wants it. Nehru keeps in trim physically through a half-hour of yoga exercises each morning, including a spell of standing on his head. Whenever he feels drained intellectually, one unfailing source of...
This year, rectifying past mistakes of overplanning, India has had a better time of it economically. The sterling balance has risen about 8%, and the government recently liberalized its laws concerning foreign investment, tempting some U.S. and British firms to get in on the ground floor of a nation where...