Onward for the House of Nehru. (Rajiv Gandhi continues)

From: National Review | Date: December 28, 1984 | Copyright information

THOUGH HAILED as the world's largest democracy, India remains as well one of its most problematic, wracked by fiercely anti-democratic passions, which the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi exacerbated at least as much as she soothed and controlled them. The spectacle of her corpse being waltzed about New Delhi on a Soviet howitzer was a symbolic reminder of the darker side of the Gandhi legacy: the too-easy acquiescence in the possibilities afforded by ententes cordiales with the ...

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