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...change in feminine status came with Mahatma Gandhi, who urged women of every caste to cast aside convention and share equally with men in India's struggle for independence. Thousands heeded his call, and as India won freedom, so did many of its women. A woman served as Shastri's Health Minister, and will probably stay on as Indira's. A woman is the chief minister of India's fourth largest state. And women are moving into more and more executive positions in Indian business and government. Today there are no fewer than 59 women in India's Parliament...
...speeches." She taught her dolls to march in Mahatma Gandhi's protest demonstrations. Then other dolls would race up and lead the demonstrators off to jail. One of the callers who sometimes helped the lonely little girl stage the doll demonstrations was a frail Congress Party worker, Lal Bahadur Shastri...
After her father's death, she sought something" to keep her mind off events, decided to study anthropology. But she was under pressure to do something quite different. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the incoming Prime Minister, wanted her to become his Foreign Minister. She protested that she wanted to remain out of the limelight. But Shastri insisted. After ten days she gave in on one condition: that she get a less important post...
...doer in other fields. When riots broke out last year in southern India, against the establishment of Hindi as the country's official language, Indira flew to the center of the violence in Madras and calmed the Tamil-speaking mobs by promising that the matter would be reconsidered (Shastri later shelved...
Selection Process. Destiny may have ordained Indira for India's biggest post, but it took shrewd politicking by others to get her there. When news of Shastri's death flashed across India, Delhi buzzed with the names of possible successors. There was S. K. Patil, 65, the political boss of Bombay and favorite of India's big businessmen. One might consider Y. B. Chavan, 51, Shastri's Defense Minister, who had won good marks during last fall's war with Pakistan. There was also acting Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda, who had held that post once before during the interregnum after...