Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dignitaries had not come to Algiers for combat, however. They were there to attend the fourth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, a loose-knit organization formed in 1961 during the heat of the cold war by Tito, Egypt's Gamal Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru. Then, the foremost aim of the conference had been to seek means by which the smaller and poorer nations of the world could protect themselves from political and economic encroachment by the superpowers...
...Economic Theme. Nasser and Nehru are both gone now, and the international climate has changed as well. One major question facing the leaders in Algiers: Do détente and the relaxation of tensions among the big powers invalidate the need for a policy of nonalignment? Or does détente serve to reinforce the status quo-that is, a world of a few strong nations and many weak ones-and hence make the need for a coordinated policy all the more imperative? Apparently hoping to offset such a conclusion. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev sent a message to Boumedienne...
...Moslem state-which became Pakistan-caused a break with Gandhi in 1942, he later rejoined his old ally and in 1948 became India's first native-born Governor-General. Long a conservative and an ardent antiCommunist, Rajaji was no follower of the majority Congress Party led by Jawaharlal Nehru; in 1959 he established his own right-wing Swatantra (Freedom) Party...
Disparity Continues. Could the government have done better? In hindsight, some Indians now believe that Nehru placed undue emphasis on dams, electrical power projects and industrialization. "Gandhi said we should begin from the village upward and release the energies of the masses of the people," says Novelist Mulk Raj Anand. "Nehru and the Western-educated intelligentsia began with the cities and worked downward. So disparity continues. While we have jumbo jets, luxury automobiles and 100,000-guest wedding receptions, in many villages women have to walk a mile to get potable water for their badly lit homes." Indira Gandhi recently...
...course, all too easy now to fault Nehru for his vaulting ambition to create a modern India through industrialization that would make it independent of the West. For one thing, his aim to a large degree has been accomplished; one of the reasons India was able to defeat Pakistan in last December's war was the fact that it now can produce its own planes and weapons...