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...government crisis leaves an opening for Indira...
...party elsewhere." With that retort the Prime Minister triggered a crisis in his 16-month-old government that led to the resignation of two Cabinet ministers, fractured the fragile unity of the ruling Janata Party and-unwittingly-cleared the way for a possible political comeback by his predecessor, Indira Gandhi...
...where he warmly welcomed India's frail-looking but still vigorous Prime Minister, the 82-year-old Morarji Desai. Carter praised his Indian guest for having willingly gone to jail rather than succumb to the restrictions on freedom during the period of Emergency Rule under then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Desai responded that both India and the U.S. were bound by "an unshakable commitment to the dignity of the individual" -an endorsement of Carter's position on human rights...
...interview last weekend, Khan was reluctant to discuss politics. But he did say that he supported former Prime Minister Indira Ghandhi's state of emergency. "What many Americans don't understand is that it was a necessary thing. Democracy is something people here have because it is tradition." He feels the emergency provided an order to the nation that was imperative for social and economic change. The American press played up its restrictiveness, he believes, and judged the Indian political situation by their own standards, without comprehending the complicated economic and social realities...
From the start she confounded her enemies, a group that included "some of the wisest old tortoises of Indian politics." Her lieutenants grew fond of saying, "India is Indira and Indira is India." It is clear that she came to believe it too. But as a dictator she was hopelessly flawed, a lonely woman who turned more and more to her own family, particularly her zealous younger son Sanjay. "She could not escape her Nehru heritage," writes Mehta, "including her Nehru conscience." Incredibly, she did not realize, or perhaps refused to believe, the extent to which the enforced sterilization campaign...