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Hail Farmer! Indians blame it on scanty rain during last summer's monsoons. Maharashtra state in western In dia reports crop losses as high as 75%. Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and the Punjab, normally big grain-producing states, see serious trouble ahead. Predictably, the shortages have sent grain prices up 30% in the past few months. To curb profiteering by speculators, the government is buying grain direct from farmers and selling it in government-run "fair-price shops" in the cities. Yet this plan has a drawback, for it attracts peasants from the countryside to the cities in search...
...Hindi Imperialism." Though spoken by more Indians than any other language, Hindi covers less than half the populace and is the mother tongue of only four states-Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh (Nehru's as well as Prime Minister Shastri's home). The officialization of Hindi has long been fought by non-Hindi regions, chiefly four southern states to which Hindi is as foreign as Tex-Mex; they are Madras (which speaks Tamil), Andhra Pradesh (Telu-gu), Kerala (Malayalam) and Mysore (Kannada). Anti-Hindis accuse the Hindis of being out for political gain. In any case...
...migrations are a perplexing problem for both governments. At India's biggest refugee camp, in Madhya Pradesh state, 500 miles west of the East Pakistan border, 50,000 Pakistani Hindus are crammed into makeshift tents and huts. There are only six doctors for the entire camp, and in the suffocating heat (110° in the shade) children die like flies. East Pakistan has erected dozens of its own refugee camps. To hasten integration of the newcomers, some local officials have ordered villages to absorb a fixed quota of the refugees, who come in relentless hundreds each...
...Nehru's Congress Party lost strength in all but two of the twelve state legislatures involved in the elections, and lost its majority in the states of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. In the Lok Sabhal (lower house of Parliament), it lost at least 25 seats. But the final count will give Congress about 350 (out of a 494 total). With control of the only vigorous nationwide machine, Congress retains overwhelming political dominance...
...opposition is in the state assemblies (see map). In Rajasthan, the Swatantra and Jana Sangh could topple the Congress leadership, and in West Bengal a leftist front could overthrow Congress. In the Punjab a Sikh separate language party threatens Congress for control of the Assembly. In Mysore, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, Congress may lose some seats. In Parliament its victory is beyond question, though the opposition parties may win as many as 200 of the 494 seats...