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Sonia Gandhi
Gandhi, Sonia December 9, 1947 • Orbassano, Italy Politician The story should have had a fairy-tale ending: a beautiful young girl meets her handsome Prince Charming, has two children, and lives happily every after. In 1968, however, when Sonia Maino married Rajiv ... Read more |
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Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi , 1944-91, prime minister of India (1984-89). Oldest son of Indira Gandhi , he flew for Indian Airlines until his brother died in 1981 and he was drafted into politics by his mother. He was elected to parliament and when his mother, Indira Gandhi , was assassinated in 1984 he... Read more |
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Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai , 1896-1995, Indian political leader. He joined the government in 1956, becoming minister of finance (1958-63). He returned to government in 1967 as deputy prime minister and minister of finance, but in 1969 was maneuvered from office by Indira Gandhi and became leader of... Read more |
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Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi , 1917-84, Indian political leader; daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru . She served as an aide to her father, who was prime minister (1947-64), and as minister of information in the government of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (1964-66). On Shastri's death in 1966, she succeeded as prime... Read more |
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee , 1926-, Indian politician, prime minister of India (1996, 1998-2004). He began his career as a journalist, entering politics as an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate in 1950. He was (1951) a founding member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the Hindu nationalist precursor of the ... Read more |
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mahatma
mahatma [Sanskrit,=great-souled], honorific title used in India among Hindus for a person of superior holiness. Mohandas Gandhi is the best-known figure to whom the title was applied.... Read more |
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Harijans
Harijans [children of God], in India, individuals who are at the bottom of or outside the Hindu caste system. They were traditionally sweepers, washers of clothes, leatherworkers, and those whose occupation it was to kill animals. The term is also sometimes applied to the hill tribes of India,... Read more |
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P V Narasimha Rao
P. V. Narasimha Rao (Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao) , 1921-2004, Indian politician, prime minister of India (1991-96), b. Hyderabad. A poet, he was active in the Indian National Congress during the struggle for independence and thereafter. He served as a minister (1962-71) and chief minister... Read more |
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , 1869-1948, Indian political and spiritual leader, b. Porbandar. In South Africa Educated in India and in London, he was admitted to the English bar in 1889 and practiced law unsuccessfully in India for two years. In 1893 he went to South Africa, where he was later... Read more |
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Rufus Daniel Isaacs 1st marquess of Reading
Rufus Daniel Isaacs Reading, 1st marquess of , 1860-1935, British statesman. Called to the bar in 1887, he achieved great success in his profession. He entered Parliament as a Liberal in 1904, became attorney general in 1910, and in 1912 was given a seat in the cabinet. Involved in charges of buying... Read more |
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Sonia Gandhi Seeks Congress Party Power
...Feb. 18, 2004 file photo. The ruling...way for Sonia Gandhi to become Indias...widow. Now Sonia Gandhi will try to forge...Thursday from India's five-stage...elections gave Gandhi's Congress party...her campaign to return ... |
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India's political landscape.(Commentary)
...rank-and-file Congress Party...injunction, "India's one and...election, Sonia Gandhi drew larger...husband for India. She told...1968 with a return ticket, but...Hind" (Hail India) three times just as Indira ... |
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Monkeys Terrorize India Workers, Tourists
...that ransack files, bring down...to await their return to forests in...own.Maneka Gandhi, daughter...Indian leader Indira Gandhi and member of...lower house of India's Parliament...left in peace.Gandhi, an ... |
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Hindu Extremists Now Focusing Violence Against India's Christians
...daily Times of India observed that...rank-and-file to demolish all...Christianity from India. The atmosphere...assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, now...establishment throughout India of Hindutva...Congress Party ... |
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Monkeys terrorize government workers; Citizens file a lawsuit to get rid of...
...that ransack files, bring down...to await their return to forests in...own. Maneka Gandhi, daughter...Indian leader Indira Gandhi and member of...lower house of India's Parliament...left in peace. Gandhi, an ... |
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On return home, no happy endings for indentured labourers
...Nadu village is India's only living...returned home to India with indentured...the "right to return" clause, the...organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre...independence (of India) had fired the...Crosschecking the ... |
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Party wants Sonia as PM: Manmohan may return as finance minister
...and the rank and file is fully in favor...prime minister of India, and there is no...the Italy-born Gandhi becoming primeminister...But officials said Gandhi would beelected leader...for her to become India's prime minister...ministerafter ... |
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Gandhis hope fourth generation can revive family's political legacy
...generation will return them to the glory...party leader Sonia Gandhi said Monday when...son, Rahul, to file nomination papers...Minister Rajiv Gandhi."I came here...she said.Rahul Gandhi, 34, is expected...stronghold in ... |
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Monkeys terrorize Indian government workers, foreign visitors
...that ransack files, bring down...to await their return to forests in...own.Maneka Gandhi, daughter...Indian leader Indira Gandhi and an independent...lower house of India's Parliament...left in peace.Gandhi, ... |
 "Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)")
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ItAEs Been a Long Penance.
...law. No one can file an obscenity case...to, not only in India, but also the world...humility that I want to return to India,o he said. oIAEll...think of missing India.o But on another...If the mighty Indira ... |
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