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Adibasi Mahasabha in 1938 which asked for a separate state of ‘Jharkhand’, to be carved out of Bihar.
his devotion to a ‘united and strong India’, and his ‘genius’ in solving the complicated problem of the princely states.
this was sardar vallabhbhai patel
general election of 1952.
This was india's first general election.
Sukumar Sen
furst cheif election comissioner
A novel method of advertising was on display in Calcutta, where stray cows had ‘Vote Congress’ written on their backs in Bengali.
On the eve of the election the political scientist Richard Park wrote that ‘the leading Indian parties and party workers are surpassed by those of no other country in electioneering skill, dramatic presentation of issues, political oratory, or mastery of political psychology’.
And there was a vindication of Indian democracy in the electoral roll of Hyderabad, where among the first who voted was the Nizam himself.
They feel they are being let down by one of themselves.1
Dulles’s view was seconded by Vice-President Richard Nixon
