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The nationwide railway strike was only one, although one of the most serious, signs of growing disorder and general malaise. A long-running China-oriented Marxist uprising in West Bengal resulted in up to 20,000 political prisoners and accompanying accusations of ill treatment, including torture. Over three dozen major strikes in Bihar took place throughout much of 1974, where tens of thousands of students and workers protested against inflation and Congress Party corruption. Corruption in Gujarat led to the looting of ships and the burning of government property. Fearing growing anarchy, Indira fought back but nowhere more forcefully than in her decision to crush the railway strike.
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Desai and Fernandes, quoted in Ram Avtar Sharma, Indira Gandhi’s leadership (New Delhi: Prakasham, 1986), 12, 71. Malhotra, 170, 171.
Mehta, 91. Pankaj Ishra, “Mother India,” New York Review of Books, October 18, 2001, 26.
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Mehta, 131. V.S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization (New York: Knopf, 1977), 20, cited in Wolpert, 405.
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Derfler, L. (2011). Indira Gandhi: Termination. In: The Fall and Rise of Political Leaders. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117242_10
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