Ep 283: The Forgotten Greatness of PV Narasimha Rao
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Indraganti Model of the Congress
i wonder if you would say that is an early example of the congress's centralizing impulses. That basically indera gandi tokova, power at the centre, started centralizing power and decided that she wanted a chief minister who would do her bidding. And in a sense, she is kind of trying to gather weak men who cannot threaten her, around herself. A narsimarow being an early version of this. He's politically weak, but he's been put in a position of strength. But he can't really do much in that position of strength, as he finds out when he's in hisa don quixote phase. Is there something broader also happening here,
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