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When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her New Congress Party were returned to power last March with a two-thirds majority in Parliament, she promised an ambitious development program that would change the lives of India's almost 600 million people. By last week, however, it was clear that the country's economy, never robust, was bogging down for reasons that are not of Mrs. Gandhi's making. More than 6,000,000 refugees have fled to India since the Pakistani government, based in West Pakistan, began a savage campaign of repression and terror in East Pakistan...
Unbalanced Exchange. While India has temporarily accepted the refugees and is doing its best to help them, the government of Indira Gandhi sees only economic and political disaster in the massive influx of impoverished peoples. The refugee problem has chronically troubled India since the August 1947 partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan. In northern India there was a fairly balanced exchange, with 6,000,000 Moslems fleeing to Pakistan and 6,500,000 Hindus and Sikhs entering India. But since partition, 4,300,000 Hindus from East Pakistan have fled to India, for the most part into West...
...more spread out," she has said. "We don't want it confined to a few families." Almost all Indian business and industrial houses today are family-run-which encourages them to become monopolies and inbred cartels but deprives them of truly professional management at the top level. Indira realizes, however, that any serious tampering with property rights could antagonize the moderates and the moneymen who are the source of her party's strength, despite its socialist platform. Mrs. Gandhi is also aware that she must find ways to spur public and private investing...
...zamindars, a breed of feudal aristocrats and absentee landlords whose estates often consisted of as many as 50 or more entire villages, have got around the law in West Bengal by parceling out property to relatives, who often number in the hundreds. Though land reform is a state problem, Indira is expected to draft model legislation and then urge state legislatures to implement it. If they do not, land-grabbing revolts could spread across the country...
Full of Faith. When Indira was 13, her father advised her in a letter he wrote while in prison: "Ordinary men and women are not usually heroic. They think of their daily bread and butter, of their children, of their household worries and the like. But a time comes when a whole people become full of faith for a great cause, and then even simple, ordinary men and women become heroes, and history becomes stirring and epochmaking. Great leaders have something in them which inspires a whole people and makes them do great deeds." Nehru's daughter has inspired...