A History of India, Third Edition

THE REPUBLIC prohibited by legislation. Defection had been a universal pastime among Indian politicians and the toppling game de ...

THE REPUBLIC seats in northern India whereas the Congress Party remained strong in the South where it routed regional parties su ...

THE REPUBLIC a protected monument and the government had kept it under lock and key so as to keep both contending parties out of ...

THE REPUBLIC quarter of all posts in government service; together with the reservations for the Scheduled Castes this added up t ...

THE REPUBLIC The verdict of the electorate had not been clearcut. Once more a minority government had to be installed, but this ...

THE REPUBLIC political target in this way. But the huge mob which accompanied the BJP campaigners could not be stopped once it h ...

THE REPUBLIC of seats won by small regional parties. They had only held altogether 58 seats earlier, but now they had captured 1 ...

THE REPUBLIC candidate. For a brief moment it seemed as if Jyoti Basu, the Communist chief minister of West Bengal, would emerge ...

THE REPUBLIC centred on finding a new leader of the National Front after Deve Gowda had yielded to pressure and relinquished his ...

THE REPUBLIC empire for more than two centuries. But the Indian nationalists did not want to do that: they did not want to be id ...

THE REPUBLIC Nehru could score his first success at international mediation when he wrote to Stalin and to the American secretar ...

THE REPUBLIC had been exchanged between the Indian and the Chinese governments for quite some time. A few years later this confl ...

THE REPUBLIC watershed line at that time when debate was focused on a different line, supposed to divide Tibet into an Inner and ...

THE REPUBLIC Nehru was flabbergasted by the course of events and 1962, in stark contrast with 1961, was the nadir of his politic ...

THE REPUBLIC After this trial run, Ayub prepared Operation ‘Grand Slam’ in order to capture Kashmir. In a quick offensive Pakist ...

THE REPUBLIC get involved in a written guarantee of Pakistan’s good behaviour, but Shastri could assume that by bringing about t ...

THE REPUBLIC very clearly. Kissinger told the Indian ambassador in Washington that China would surely attack in the event of Ind ...

THE REPUBLIC Indira Gandhi could, indeed, take pride in having been able to defy both these powers successfully. Nixon’s policy ...

THE REPUBLIC Non-proliferation Treaty (1968) which was jointly sponsored by the United States and the Soviet Union. The two supe ...

THE REPUBLIC spoiled everything. Desai, who did not approve of the 1974 explosion, was nevertheless firm in his adherence to the ...