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...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...
...Despite Nehru's efforts, the position of the majority of women and harijans ("children of God," as Gandhi called the untouchables) in Indian society has not been greatly changed. Impressive educational advances have been made, but girls account for a vast majority of the children not in school. Accordingly, the literacy rate among women is a mere 18% compared with 39% for males. The 80 million harijans, moreover, still do mostly menial tasks and frequently live in segregated areas...
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...
...choosing. Last week, before leaving for a visit to India's ally the Soviet Union, Pakistan's President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto indicated that he is willing to drop his country's longstanding claim to Kashmir. It was a particularly eloquent bit of proof that Jawaharlal Nehru's imperious daughter has led her country into...