INDIA: A Falling Out From Hares to Hounds

INDIA A Falling Out from Hares to Hounds

It's splitsville for Indira and the comrades. India's Prime Minister and the Moscow-leaning Communist Party of India (C.P.I.) were once the best of friends. In 1969, the C.P.I, helped keep Indira Gandhi in power after she drove the old guard out of the ruling Congress Party, splitting the party in the process. It supported her again when she declared a state of emergency in June 1975 and suspended many civil liberties. As a result, the C.P.I, was the only opposition party without a single member...

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