Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Services were held after the deaths of both Jawaharal Nehru and Dag Hammarskjold. Hammarskjold had, however, previously received an honorary degree from the University...
...there seemed to be little likelihood that he would resume the frantic pace of his first 17 days in office. He has shed the foreign minister's portfolio, naming ex-Railways Minister Swaran Singh to handle India's relations abroad. It was a task that Jawaharlal Nehru himself used to carry, but there was no need for Shastri to kill himself merely in order to emulate his indefatigable predecessor. "It is not necessary," wrote a columnist in Bombay's influential Economic Weekly, "for Shastri to be Foreign Minister, Minister for Atomic Energy and Chairman of the Planning...
Gafoor Noorani, an advocate in the Bombay high court, added that the philosophy of non-alignment embraced by Nehru is so deeply ingrained that a successor could not change it. Nehru did not create this philosophy, he said, but molded the Indian people's adherence...
...Ramachandran in the first international Seminar panel discussion. "India after Nehru", said that although it may not be possible for Prime Minister Shastri to rise up to Nehru's personal level of statesmanship, the Party is trying to form a collective leadership to equal their former leader's strength...
Sunanda Kisor Datta-Ray, assistant editor of The Statesman, suggested that the existing power split between the traditionalists and Anglo-Indians may diminish the influence of Nehru's successor. Because Shastri embraces Indian tradition, he is not unanimously supported by the rest of the government and party. Presently, the stronger influence upon the Indian people decidedly is Western, rather than traditional: to be Westernized is a status symbol...