South Asia Lok Dal.
rhetoric connivence the their chains and sicei manifesto.
sorter with a iwisted arm was The hired thugs were There are 15 recognised surprising, the country had been more often under 'emergency" • ie presidental rule not since 1962. It's true she did go further than before. She smashed all freedom of the press for example, even words of Gandhi and Nehru had to be checked before publication. had to say about it was: "What difference do a few hundred journalists make to the freedom of But India was already set down the route Indira Gandhi was on before the British were eyer forced out.
The Janata Party, which was elected to restore democracy and stamp out corruption, was if anything more corrupt than the Congress Party itself. From the point of view of the masses it made little difference at all, and it gave the Jan Sangh party, a semi-fascist Hindu chauvinist party based on the richer peasants in the South, a chance to gain respectability. It has become the third party in Parliament under the new name of Illiteracy Indian democracy is a sham and a fraud and has been since it was first mentioned. Despite the the facts speak Something like 80 per cent of the population is illiterate — a higher proportion than 15 years ago and when the elections are run by a highly literate bourgeoisie the masses don't stand much of a chance. And when 17 per population owns over 50 per cent of the land the poor peasants can hardly choose to vote against landlords who've handsomely paid for their tenants' vores.
Neither party in the last election produced a veithe party presented the masses ith a programme for economic recovery to prevent famine, to reform fight poverty, landholding. Indira Gandhi may have won a landslide victory, but it will take more than her image to keep India together as the new wave of world recession closes in.
The irony is that there is some truth in what Compared le the military dictatorship dares tic press sali borde in Patiszan.
in cakes IOre people queuing up to vore to - than All that Indira which themselves Britain and Moscow:
cent of the already been Afghan Curzon's our side.' Rolling India is Iban 400,000 government of make a real would adopt the IN 1923 the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, threatened to declare war on the Afghan had secured its independence from Britain just four years before. Behind this lay the friendly relations then being established between Afghanistan and the USSK.
Evaluating the possibility of war between Afghanistan, Raskolnikov, Soviet representative in Kabul, reported to *In the event of an Anglo-Afghan war all the sympathies of 70 million Moslems in India would be on the side of the Afghans...In view of the attachment independence it mast be said that the chances of the Afghan government capitulating hefore the English.. are extremely slight.
It secres logical to presence that as a result of ultimatum Afghanistan will welcome rapprochement with USSR even more readily. History is on It is unlikely that Raskolnikoy or the Soviet 1923 envisaged that appearance of Soviet tanks rolling across the Afghan border in 1979-80. On *Karachi the contrary.
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of Afghanistan, change for the 'history' Miles The policy of the early Soviet government was to stress its clean break with the imperial Russian policy of vying with the British Empire to secure military and economic contro!
Thus the Soviet Union was the first country to recognise the independent state of Afghanistan, and in 1921 the two states signed a friendship treaty. Among the promises made by the new Soviet government was one which emphasised its adherence to the principles of self-determina'In fulfilment of and in accordance undertakings of the government of the RSFSR [Soviet Union] given by its chief Lenin to the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Sovereign State Russia agrees to transfer to Aíghanistan the lands in the frontier area which clonged to it in the last century, while observin the principles of justice aud the free expression o the will of the peoples inhabiting those areas.
Such a declaration must have been a welcom people Afghanista Throughout the previous century the coustry had been the vietim of a tug of war between the rival imperial powers of Britain and Russi During the first British-Afghan War of 183812