End of Gandhi's honeymoon: upheavals dash India's high hopes, worry neighbors and U.S. (Rajiv Gandhi)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: September 15, 1986| Author: | Copyright information

By now Rajiv Gandhi, may feel that India is ungovernable. After almost two years as Prime Minister and with his relatively peaceful first months in power fading into memory, he confronts a violent array of seemingly insoluble issues in the world's most populous and most fractious democracy.

Sikh militants demand autonomy in Punjab. In Assam, Hindus fight Moslems. Hindus in remote areas quarrel among themselves, lower caste vs. upper caste. Christians angrily confront Hindus in southern Kerala state. The economy, as ever, defies coherence. "It seems that when trouble ...

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