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India is undergoing another plague of political unrest. It grows out of last February's elections, in which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress Party, in an unprecedented defeat, lost control of nine of India's 17 states. In only one of those states did a non-Congress party emerge with a large enough majority to rule alone. In all of the others, the vote was so splintered that the parties were forced to form coalitions that sometimes included as many as 14 parties of wildly incompatible political persuasions. The result in some states was chaos...
Lyndon Johnson sent a covered vermeil punch bowl. Charles de Gaulle gave a porcelain and bronze table, Queen Elizabeth a gold-plated fruit basket, Indira Gandhi a silver miniature of New Delhi's minaret, Kutb Minar. From Russia's President Nikolai Podgorny came a 31-ft. porcelain vase, from Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba a solid gold olive tree and from Kuwait's Emir Sabah as Salem as Sabah two black Arabian stallions. President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines sent a packet of seeds of a new strain of rice that, if it finds the right soil...
...legislative turmoil in India's seventh largest state (pop. 36,000,000) was only one numbing throb in what has become a royal headache for Indira Gandhi's Congress Party. Twenty years after India's independence and the merging of the country's 554 autonomous kingdoms with its British-run provinces, the maharajahs, princelings and other assorted royalty left over from the old days are turning to politics and making things increasingly warm for the Congress Party. The party, in turn, is angrily threatening to cut off the pensions and special privileges of the princes...
...Minister, he insisted that religion and politics should be separated in the newly independent country, hoped that India would develop into a secular, Western-style nation rather than a religion-centered Hindu homeland. Fittingly, it was his daughter who engineered the election. Selecting Husain as her candidate, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi argued that other countries would not believe India's claim to ethnic and religious impartiality unless a Moslem could become head of state. She threw her whole prestige behind his election...
...quite a risk, especially in the wake of February's nationwide elections, in which the Congress Party lost control of eight of India's 17 state governments and dropped 82 seats in the lower house of Parliament. Hoping to deal Indira yet another blow, seven opposition parties, ranging from far-rightists to Peking-lining leftists, rallied behind a single candidate, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Subba Rao, a staunch Hindu. But the vote, conducted in the state assemblies and na tional Parliament, went to Husain by a solid margin...