After Indira, can India hold together? (Indira Gandhi)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: November 12, 1984| Author: Kaylor, Robert | Copyright information

India's fate as the world's most populous democracy hangs in the balance in the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Without the iron hand of the martyred leader at the helm, there are genuine fears that this vast, volatile and disparate nation may gradually be pulled apart.

Doubts are widespread about the capacity of Prime Minister Gandhi's successor--her politically inexperienced 40-year-old son, Rajiv--to cope with the explosive ...

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