Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aftermath of the election, Ved Mahta, an Indian journalist, wrote in the New Yorker that a dictator should never call elections unless he has taken care to rig the results. But Gandhi miscalculated in calling for parliamentary elections. Now India has 81-year-old Morarji Desai as Prime Minister, and Gandhi returns to private life after 11 years in power...
...dynasty into a third generation. Sanjay, though, lacked political experience and would hardly have been a competent successor to his mother, or anyone else. By making him the head of the Congress Party's youth wing, Gandhi not only supplanted several senior party leaders, but she also disregarded an Indian political ethos which holds that age and experience deserve proper respect. After all, Sanjay was little more than a rich, rowdy youth of questionable intelligence with a fascination for cars and airplanes. Seven years ago, he received a license to open India's third motorcar company, one which would produce...
True, the immigrant civilization sometimes obtained land honorably, by treaty or purchase. But even in many of these cases it often appeared that the Indians did not fully understand the game. Basically, says Wilbur Jacobs in Dispossessing the American Indian (1972), "the Indian saw the land as supernaturally provided for man's use and not subject to sale or individual ownership." Some Indian leaders would attest too late that they had no power to "sell" land, not as the white man understood the word. In exchange for lands conveyed by treaty, the Indians often got little more than unenduring...
...protect the Indians against usurpations that Congress in 1790 adopted the so-called Nonintercourse Act. This law provided that no Indian land could change hands without congressional approval. In fact, the act mainly reserved to the Federal Government those further immense acquisitions of Indian territory that would be made in the 19th century. The leader who set the pace and policy for the relentless official land-grabbing that accompanied western expansion was Andrew Jackson. The Tennessean vaulted to the White House on the reputation he had won partly by clearing the Southern states of Indians as a major general...
...clear, after all, that the Indians have some valid claim on the national conscience. They deserve above all else a chance to reclaim the identity, dignity, pride and esteem that have too often been taken away from them. Indeed, the mood of the Indians suggests that the recovery of such intangibles is not a small item in their renaissance goals. In the land cases, the Indians' willingness to settle out of court, even with the law on their side, forces one to wonder whether the stunning size of the claims has not been intended mainly to arrest the attention...