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The author recounts in detail the events that occurred from September to August , during the final stages of India's bid for freedom, and how power was actually transferred. Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Transfer of Power in India , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Transfer of Power in India.
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No statewide plebiscite was held, however, for in , after Pakistan began to receive arms from the United States , Nehru withdrew his support.
China and India, however, had not resolved a dispute over several areas of their border, most notably the section demarcating a barren plateau in Ladakh—most of which was called Aksai Chin , which was claimed by India as part of Jammu and Kashmir state but never properly surveyed—and the section bordered on the north by the McMahon Line , which stretched from Bhutan to Burma Myanmar and extended to the crest of the Great Himalayas. After China had reasserted its authority over Tibet in , it began appealing to India—but to no avail—for negotiations over the border.
This Sino-Indian dispute was exacerbated in the late s after India discovered a road across Aksai Chin built by the Chinese to link its autonomous region of Xinjiang with Tibet. Food grain production increased from 51 million tons in to 82 million tons by the end of the Second Five-Year Plan — The growth of iron and steel industries soon became a truly international example of coexistence, with the United States building one plant, the Soviet Union another, Britain a third, and West Germany a fourth.
The Ford Foundation , an American philanthropic organization, began a community development and rural extension program in the early s that encouraged young Indian college students and technical experts to focus their skills and knowledge on village problems. It was not until the late s that chemical fertilizers and high-yield food seeds brought the Green Revolution in agriculture to India. The results were mixed, as many poor or small farmers were unable to afford the seeds or the risks involved in the new technology.
Moreover, as production of rice and, especially, wheat increased, there was a corresponding decrease in other grain production. Farmers who benefited most were from the major wheat-growing areas of Haryana , Punjab, and western Uttar Pradesh. Shastri had devoted his life to party affairs and had served Nehru well both inside and outside his cabinet. His modesty and simplicity, moreover, appealed to most Indians. Almost immediately after Shastri took office, India was faced with a threat of war from Pakistan.
The Commonwealth prime ministers and the UN quickly prevailed on both sides to agree to a cease-fire and withdrawal of forces to the prewar borders. The great city of Lahore was in range of Indian tank fire by September 23, when both sides agreed on a UN cease-fire.
Shastri was hailed as a hero in New Delhi. The next morning, however, Shastri was dead of a heart attack , and the Tashkent Agreement hardly outlived him.
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