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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are other brakes on progress: the rigidly entrenched caste system, the antipathy of the educated toward manual labor, the 8,000,000 wandering sadhus or holy men (80% reputed to be frauds) who live in idleness. These and the leaden weight of superstition and ignorance make of Indian life, in Nehru's despairing words, "a sluggish stream, living in the past, moving slowly through the accumulations of dead centuries...
...men know, like and respect each other. They first met in 1949 when Ike, as president of Columbia University, awarded an honorary degree to Nehru, who was making his first visit to the U.S. After Eisenhower moved on to the presidency of the U.S., Nehru's private comments about him were not always flattering. Though recognizing Ike's inherent goodness, Nehru nevertheless thought him a weak leader, dominated by the "negative" foreign policy of John Foster Dulles...
...Indians attend school and college, and the number is to be doubled in five years. If any one man can claim the credit, it is Nehru, and all Indians know it. Scarcely anyone now remembers the 1947 warning of Sir Winston Churchill that "we are turning over India to men of straw, like the caste Hindu, Mr, Nehru, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain...
...Asset. As a result of these and other troubles, Nehru's petulance and quick temper flared more and more frequently. He railed against the ingrained Indian habits of inefficiency, tardiness and cheerful anarchy. He stormed at the prevalence of holidays, cows and fraudulent holy men, yet did nothing about them. He pleaded with his colleagues in the governing Congress Party to abandon red tape, corruption and nepotism; they listened, and went back to their old ways...
...Patil himself, a tough, able administrator who is India's closest approximation of an anything-goes U.S. politician, and Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 63, an eccentric but capable mixture of far-out ideas on sex and alcohol (he is against both). Gandhian attitudes, and administrative talent. Both .men are strongly pro-Western, anti-Communist and holders of pragmatic economic views. But when Nehru last year announced that he wanted to step down as Prime Minister, Congress Party stalwarts, swept by panic, cried: "Pandit ji, you are leaving us orphans...