Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

Personal Political General

invaded and movement’ formally

incorporated into the comes into being

Indian Union.

1961–6: Third Five-Year

Plan

1962 Nehru weakened in January: third general October: Cuban Missile
parliament; under elections. Crisis
pressure to align with October–November:
the Western bloc China ‘war’

1963 No confidence motion ‘Kamaraj Plan’ for the
against Nehru’s regeneration of the
economic policy in Congress Party.
Parliament defeated Nagaland separated
from Assam (decision
taken 1960). Resistance
of Mizo people begins

1964 January 6: Nehru has a
stroke.
May 27: death of Nehru

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