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The Restless Years

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Themes from the 70s. A series of ten programmes 8: Room for Wonder
Some callefl her a goddess and defender of the poor. Others called her a tyrant and dictator. During the dark days of the emergency they talked of Indira's India. For Indians the 70s was the decade of Mrs Gandhi victor in the war with Pakistan, then totally rejected by the 300 million electors of the world's largest democracy in 1977 -now at the end of the decade, Prime Minister again after one of the most extraordinary political comebacks in modern times.
Douglas Stuart reports on India - test case for democracy in the Third World.
Producer DAVID POWELL

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Mrs Gandhi
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Douglas Stuart
Producer:
David Powell
Source: Radio Times

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