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| | Ved Mehta Writings A Family Affair |
 | | Gandhi's successors as Prime Minister, Morarji Desai and Charan Singh, were in their turn forced out of officein the main because of questions about the political influence of their families. |
 | | Mehta holds that India, although it is the world's most populous parliamentary democracy, remains a feudal society, organized around principles of caste and family: Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter, Indira Gandhi, have, between them, ruled India as Prime Ministers for all but four of its years as an independent nation, and by the mid-seventies Mrs. |
 | | Gandhi survived charges of nepotism and corruption to sweep back into power in 1980; how Sanjay was at last elected to office, as a member of Parliament; and how mother and son reestablished their court autocracy in New Delhi, with Sanjay assuming the role of heir apparent. |
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