Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...familiar, yet unlikely, candidate was Indira Gandhi, personally carrying her pitch to an estimated 90 million voters in a 25,000-mile nationwide campaign. She was defiantly attempting nothing less than the possible restoration of the dynastic House of Nehru to Indian politics, a move that not many would have predicted only a few months earlier. Just 21/2 years ago, the 62-year-old daughter of India's revered first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was roundly turned out as Prime Minister, and even as an M.P., when an angry electorate swept her faction of the Congress Party from office...