POLITICS
Of Indira Gandhi
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Mrs. Gandhi is said to have been shy and diffident as a young woman, and people who knew her well have stressed that despite her domineering public personality in later life, she retained her strong sense of privacy, along with a concern for a few close personal friends. Her elegant, aristocratic manner was often in striking contrast to that of the politicians who surrounded her.
It is difficult to give a summary evaluation of Mrs. Gandhi's role in modern India. While it is generally agreed that she was a very skillful politician and that she was enormously popular with the masses, many thoughtful people believed that her drive for personal power, symbolized in the long domination of Indian politics by the Nehru family, had weakened democratic development.
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