Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While her opponents danced in the streets of Bombay, threw confetti in Calcutta, and held victory parades in Madras, Indira Gandhi retreated into the seclusion of her modest New Delhi bungalow. There was ample reason for gloom. The Congress Party, which has ruled India for 20 years and won elections with clocklike regularity, suffered setbacks in India's fourth general elections that far exceeded even the most pessimistic predictions and imperiled Indira's chances of continuing as Prime Minister...
...stones were already flying when Indira Gandhi came before a hostile audience of 50,000 in the eastern city of Bhubaneswar. Campaigning for her Congress Party before national elections that will last from Feb. 15 to Feb. 22, India's Prime Minister upbraided the troublemakers. She cried, "Will you vote for such hooligans, who throw stones at other people?" Just then, an egg-shaped rock flew through the air and thudded into Indira's face, fracturing the bridge of her nose, loosening a tooth and lacerating her lip. For a moment she swayed forward, clutching her face. Then...
...Indian government. The displaced princes are hard to beat; many peasants still remember their rule as the good old days, when life was simpler and they could at least bring their complaints directly to their ruler instead of facing the massive bureaucracy that now engulfs India. Sadly, as Indira Gandhi has discovered, all too many Indians associate their troubles with the democratic system and the Congress Party, which succeeded their former rulers...
...lady in the simple cotton sari finished her speech and stepped up to the bamboo barricades that held back the crowd. While thousands of brown hands danced in the air, she took from an aide the day's accumulation of garlands and tossed them to her listeners. Indira Gandhi was doing what she had so often watched Jawaharlal Nehru do in those years past when she had stumped with him across the length and breadth of India. This time, as she pressed her campaign for the national elections that will be held from...
Differing Forecasts. Despite these problems, Indira Gandhi expects the Congress Party to suffer only marginal losses, if any, at the polls. She is also confident that no one will be able to elbow her out of the prime ministry after the elections. But other Indians are less sanguine. Most forecasts predict that the Congress Party will lose control of three or four states to right-wing alliances and perhaps the state of Kerala to the Communists. The Con gress Party is also expected to lose 80 or so of the 374 seats that...