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Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress system
.. new Prime Minister of India, inspite of all forebodings, had been named with more dispatch, and much more dignity than was the new Prime Minister of Britain ”.
(i) Where and why was this paragraph?
(ii) Which Indian Prime Minister has been referred to in the above paragraph ?
(i) This was an editorial in the Guardian, London, 3 June 1964, comparing the political succession after Nehru with the succession drama after Harold Macmillan in Britain.
(ii)The reference has been made to Lal Bahadur Shastri.
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(a) What according to the author is the difference between the strategies of Nehru and Indira Gandhi ?
(b) Why does the author say that the Congress party ‘died’ in the seventies ?
(c) In what way, did the change in the Congress party affect other political parties also ?
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