Word: pradesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sacred animals. Big blocks of parliamentary seats from the Cow Belt have been crucial to all five of the Congress Party's national electoral victories since 1947. But while accompanying the candidates on a swing through the region, which includes Mrs. Gandhi's constituency in Uttar Pradesh, TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief Lawrence Malkin encountered widespread resentment of Indira's rule. "During the emergency, some local officials arbitrarily used the suspension of habeas corpus and other rights to arrest or harass whomever they chose," Malkin reported. "Stories circulate of people being picked up for distributing...
...former princes who could be counted on to deliver the vote in their old principalities. Sanjay's allies wound up with fewer than ten nominations-one of which, to be sure, went to Sanjay. He will be running for a seat adjoining his mother's in Uttar Pradesh -a fact that strikes many Indians as ironically in keeping with the party's electoral symbol, a cow and a calf. In this case, mother and son are yoked together in what seems, more and more, to be the political campaign of their lives...
...caused rioting, resulting in some deaths in several northern cities and towns. Birth control has become such an inflammatory issue in some heavily Moslem sectors that a secret intelligence report reputedly warned Mrs. Gandhi, 59, that she might lose an open election in her own state of Uttar Pradesh, where the Congress Party traditionally relies on strong Moslem support...
...Gandhi was in this bleak corner of impoverished Uttar Pradesh state for a padayatra, the journey on foot made famous 25 years ago by Vinobha Bhave, who for 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...
...than a genuine effort to get in touch with the masses, last week's padayatra nonetheless brought Mrs. Gandhi face to face with India's circumstances. "Do you go to school?" she asked one girl. The answer: No, because there is no high school in Hillaur. Uttar Pradesh's education minister, who accompanied Mrs. Gandhi, announced that Hillaur will not only get a school but also a small hospital...