Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times reported that the conference represented an effort by two private groups, the A.A.A.S. and India's Nehru Foundation for Development, to deal with current problems in U.S.-India relations...
...matter of simple courtesy to a woman. It is also partly a matter of respect for her father's memory. But of late there has been a good deal of grumbling inside the ruling Congress Party. And one of the charges is that the child of Jawaharlal Nehru is abandoning her father's nationalist and socialist ideals...
...Nobody Can Shake Me." Last week the lady Prime Minister gave the grumblers an acid piece of her mind. Standing before a large portrait of her father at a meeting of Congress Party leaders in Bombay, she declared: "Don't tell me that I don't know Nehru's ideology. We worked together. I was intimately connected with all his thinking." In any case, she did not see her role as a mere imitator of her father. "If I think it is necessary to depart from these policies in the interests of the country, I shall...
...lies in chemical fertilizers. Since independence, the Indian government has built six chemical-fertilizer plants; to these is due much of the credit for the fact that per capita food production has actually gone up 15% in the last 15 years. This is not nearly enough, but under Pandit Nehru, India refused to allow foreign companies to "exploit" the country's potential market for fertilizer...
...Nehru's successor, the late Lal Bahadur Shastri, moved toward changing that policy. India's food crisis, he decided, was just too terrible to let socialist doctrine stand in the way of solution. At his recommendation, an agricultural program was adopted last December that, among other things, allows foreign firms to build and operate their own fertilizer plants-and set their own prices. After Shastri died, the new Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, was ultimately convinced of the program's necessity. Despite some indigenous political sniping, she has strongly sponsored it since. Recognizing...