Indra Gandhi on great Indian starvation...

[SarthakGanguly]

How about being a little more gracious and change the last name to "GANDHI" in the title.

The defeated enemy seems solace...

 

[somebozo]

Thats definitely some intentionally "cheap shots" by omitting a couple of letters here and there

It always spell it the same and it is a forever problem with Indians on PDF...not wanting to give a false impression and ruin the thread with troll fest I have requested the mods to correct it .

 

[SarthakGanguly]

That is precisely the excuse used to meddling in East-Pakistan?? Now why are you complaining over it?? Set of double ethics?

We studied the staff plans of operation Gibraltar thoroughly. How to make use of an excuse of civil unrest is one of them.

Difference is that while the Indian forces succeeded, the SSG failed.

 

[Levina]

It gives me pride to watch these videos and see how far we have come.

Ofcourse!
Like they say "it's the trees which bear fruits that get pelted with stones".
This thread is an example.

Remembering Indira on the day she declared Emergency in India?

You must be living in Canada. She declared it on 24th and it came into effect from 25th.

Jokes apart, I think Indira Gandhi would have been one of the greatest leaders had she not made the blunder of declaring emergency. She had the support of the masses till then. Pretty much like Modi.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

It always spell it the same and it is a forever problem with Indians on PDF...not wanting to give a false impression and ruin the thread with troll fest I have requested the mods to correct it .

No. The Indians requested the mods to correct it. I personally don't mind it anyway. I don't expect much better.

 

[Levina]

It always spell it the same and it is a forever problem with Indians on PDF...not wanting to give a false impression and ruin the thread with troll fest I have requested the mods to correct it .

Just FYI- Being the OP of the thread you can correct the TITLE without a mod's help.
There's something called THREAD TOOLS towards RHS top corner of the thread. Open the drop down menu and CORRECT the title if it wasn't intentional.

And read the Wikipedia link that you've posted. It's GANDHI!!!

 

[Nilgiri]

I think Indira Gandhi would have been one of the greatest leaders had she not made the blunder of declaring emergency.

Well that and the massive nationalisation spree she did....turning large parts of the official Indian economy into USSR-like decrepit bureaucratic stagnant and debt ridden monoliths...making any lasting small enterprise that survived through Nehruvian system...seek refuge in informal economy and black markets...or just get smothered completely if it wanted to stay by the book. Her economics generally really sucked....some of it we are still only starting to recover from today...and some persists still (the Byzantine legal codes for all kinds of businesses and labour laws for example).

Her foreign leadership and general securty/law+order handling was good overall.

Overall I would rate her 4/10 (Modi so far is at about 6/10 for me...a little higher if we are talking about Guj CMship only)

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

@Levina @Nilgiri @Stag112

Its rather ironical and hilarious that the OP has chosen to discredit Indira Ghandi on food security.

When it was under her the Indian Green revolution took full steam

Green Revolution and the Fourth Five Year Plan[edit]
Gandhi inherited a weak and troubled economy. Fiscal problems associated with the war with Pakistan in 1965, along with a drought-induced food crisis that spawned famines, had plunged India into the sharpest recession since independence.[97][107] The government responded by taking steps to liberalize the economy, and by agreeing to the devaluation of the currency in return for the restoration of foreign aid.[107] The economy managed to recover in 1966 and ended up growing at 4.1% over 1966–1969.[100][108] But, much of that growth was offset by the fact that the external aid promised by the United States government and theInternational Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), meant to ease the short-run costs of adjustment to a liberalized economy, never materialized.[107] American policy makers had complained of continued restrictions imposed on the economy. At the same time, Indo-US relations were straining due to Gandhi's criticism of the American bombing campaign in Vietnam. While it was thought, at the time, and for decades after, that President Johnson's policy of withholding food grain shipments was to coerce Indian support for the war, in fact, it was to offer India rainmaking technology that he wanted to use as a counterweight to China's possession of the atomic bomb.[109][110] In light of the circumstances, liberalization became politically suspect and was soon abandoned.[107] Grain diplomacy and currency devaluation became matters of intense national pride in India. After the bitter experience with Johnson, Gandhi decided not to request food aid in the future. Moreover, Gandhi's government resolved never again to become "so vulnerably dependent" on aid, and painstakingly began building up substantial foreign exchange reserves.[111] When food stocks slumped after poor harvests in 1972, the government made it a point to use foreign exchange to buy US wheat commercially rather than seek resumption of food aid.[112]


The period of 1967–75 was characterized by socialist ascendency in India which culminated in 1976 with the official declaration of state socialism. Gandhi not only abandoned the short lived liberalization programme but also aggressively expanded the public sector with new licensing requirements and other restrictions for industry. She began a new course by launching the Fourth Five-Year Plan in 1969. The government targeted growth at 5.7% while stating as its goals, "growth with stability and progressive achievement of self-reliance."[100][113] The rationale behind the overall plan was Gandhi's Ten Point Programme of 1967. This had been her first economic policy formulation, six months after coming to office. The programme emphasized greater state control of the economy with the understanding that government control assured greater welfare than private control.[100] Related to this point were a set of policies which were meant to regulate the private sector.[100] By the end of the 1960s, the reversal of the liberalization process was complete, and India's policies were characterised as "protectionist as ever."[111]

To deal with India's food problems, Gandhi expanded the emphasis on production of inputs to agriculture that had already been initiated by her father, Jawaharlal Nehru.[97]The Green Revolution in India subsequently culminated under her government in the 1970s and transformed the country from a nation heavily reliant on imported grains and prone to famine to being largely able to feed itself, and become successful in achieving its goal of food security. Gandhi had a personal motive in pursuing agricultural self-sufficiency, having found India's dependency on the U.S. for shipments of grains humiliating.[114]

The economic period of 1967–75 became significant for its major wave of nationalisations amidst the increased regulation of the private sector.[97]

Some of the other objectives of the economic plan for the period was to provide for the minimum needs of the community through a rural works program and the removal of the privy purses of the nobility.[100] Both these, and many other goals of the 1967 program were accomplished by 1974–75. Nevertheless, the success of the overall economic plan was tempered by the fact that annual growth at 3.3–3.4% over 1969–74 fell short of the targeted figure.[100]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi#Green_Revolution_and_the_Fourth_Five_Year_Plan


This green revolution is what prevented India from a disaster like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward


And the affects of the Green revolution can be seen to this day :

For 2015
1. % Proportion of undernourished in population in India = 15.2%
2. % Proportion of undernourished in population in Pakistan = 22%

http://ghi.ifpri.org/countries/PAK/
http://ghi.ifpri.org/countries/IND/

Whats amusing is many Pakistanis are unaware that existence of West Pakistan is because of Indira Ghandi's choice in early1980s

 

[ranjeet]

Jokes apart, I think Indira Gandhi would have been one of the greatest leaders had she not made the blunder of declaring emergency. She had the support of the masses till then. Pretty much like Modi.

If am not wrong it was her able leadership which politicized our bureaucracy.