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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This article examines the impact that national economic policies adopted during Indira Gandhi's final term in office (1980-84) had on four "national" social groups, namely the big industrialists, the middle class, the rich peasantry, and the poor. The study argues that the Congress (I) chose the former two as its major allies, while the rich peasantry and the poor were relegated to a secondary position. In the process, the focus of India's strategy of development shifted from the agrarian to the industrial sector, and from the rural to the urban world.
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