Word: pradesh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because they knew that she was their beloved Panditji's daughter, Indians by the thousands last week turned out to greet her. Traveling mostly by auto, Indira went from one dusty village to another in the impoverished state of Uttar Pradesh, campaigned there in the electoral district in which she herself will stand for re-election to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. Rarely speaking for more than ten minutes, she pleaded for support for the Congress Party. "Do not cut down a tree," she said, "when it is about to bear fruit...
...months the government had been discussing plans to build India's fifth state-owned steel mill, and one of the likely sites was near the coastal city of Vizagapatnam in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Several weeks ago, in an effort to force the government's hand to start building the plant soon, a regional patriot named Amruta Rao went on a hunger strike. Little by little, noisy support for his demand spread through out the state. Last week mobs went on a rampage in dozens of towns, burning post offices and railway stations, tearing down telegraph...
...Sake, So!" To some extent, India's dark mood stems from the hopelessness of the country's economic situation. Reports from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh suggested that the fall harvest throughout India is falling far short of expected goals-grim warning of a repeat of last year's food crisis, when the country was saved from outright starvation only by the shipment of 10 million tons of U.S. food. The current bitterness also seems to reflect widespread dismay over the failure of political leaders to provide dramatic remedies for India's huge problems...
Hail Farmer! Indians blame it on scanty rain during last summer's monsoons. Maharashtra state in western In dia reports crop losses as high as 75%. Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and the Punjab, normally big grain-producing states, see serious trouble ahead. Predictably, the shortages have sent grain prices up 30% in the past few months. To curb profiteering by speculators, the government is buying grain direct from farmers and selling it in government-run "fair-price shops" in the cities. Yet this plan has a drawback, for it attracts peasants from the countryside to the cities in search...
...Sanjiva Reddy, 52, a bespectacled, brush-browed anti-Communist who serves as Shastri's Minister of Steel and Mines and is one of the few Cabinet members with a dual political base. He has supporters in both Madras and Andhra Pradesh thanks to the fact that those two states were created...