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...Head of State's corrupt method. Though he does not succeed in bringing about a popular revolution, near the end of the book The Student surfaces in Paris as he is leaving for the "First World Conference on Colonial and Imperialist Politics" in the company of Jawaharlal Nehru. He is moving into the future, while the Head of State erodes in his senile Parisian exile...
...years walked the length and breadth of India asking people to give up one-tenth of their land to the landless. A padayatra has become the customary way for leaders to make contact with their people. In 1959 Mrs. Gandhi walked for four days through her father Jawaharlal Nehru's Allahabad constituency. This year Indira, 58, reduced her padayatra to a mile-long, 50-min. walk through the single village of Hillaur. There were other differences, reports TIME Correspondent James Shepherd, who was along for both walks...
...India today is not, technically speaking, a politician at all. He has never run for public office, and even denies that he has firmly set his sights on a political career. Nonetheless, Sanjay Gandhi, 29, the younger son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi* and the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, has been hitting the hustings lately as an articulate and outspoken advocate of his mother's policies. Sanjay's political enemies-and even some of his friends-have begun to refer to him as "the crown prince." Veteran Indian politicians are treating him with the deference due a young...
Jawaharlal Nehru, Hindu leader of India's Congress Party and the first native Prime Minister, is also warmly praised for his Brahman sensitivity. The villain of the book is Mohammed Ali Jinnah, fanatical leader of the Moslem League, who demands the separate state of Pakistan for his people. "We shall have India divided," he warns, "or we shall have India destroyed...
...Gandhi cannot save all lives. Even before his assassination, the hacking out of West and East Pakistan leads to appalling religious butchery. The strain on both new nations is nearly fa tal. Within months of its creation, Pak istan's checks are bouncing. Shaken by his awesome difficulties, Nehru asks Mountbatten to take secret control of the country once again. The irony is crushing: the last English viceroy also has to serve as India's closet king...