POLITICS
Of Indira Gandhi
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Expectations raised by the garibi hatao campaign and India's victory over Pakistan in 1971 led to great disappointment and political difficulties in the mid-1970s, owing in part to the severe economic problems associated with a sixteenfold increase in world oil prices between 1973 and 1975 but also to the inclination of Mrs. Gandhi to become more and more defensive and insecure in the face of mounting political and economic problems and her open attempts to thrust her sons, Sanjay and Rajiv, forward as successors to her leadership.
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