Word: rajya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word dictatorship is frequently bandied about," answered Mrs. Gandhi during parliamentary debate last week. "Not only our system but our methods of working leave little room for authoritarianism." Thereupon the amendments sailed through the Rajya Sabha (upper house) by a vote of 191 to 0. They are expected to be ratified in short order by a majority of India's 22 state legislatures, most of which are also controlled by the Congress Party...
...adjourned last weekend, she may well introduce at the next session new legislation designed to circumvent the judges' objections. Such a bill might easily pass next time, since it initially failed by a scant one-third of a vote to get the required two-thirds majority in the Rajya Sabha, Parliament's upper house. There are even rumors that she may dissolve Parliament and call for new elections, using the ruling on the princes as a rallying point to gain a larger majority. In a land where the average annual income is only $70, the princely privileges might...
...Crown Prince Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, 24. He will not only succeed his father some day as monarch but also, the Nepalese believe, as the reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. The prince's bride, and also his second cousin, was Crown Princess Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Rana, 20, a member of the family that ruled...