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Federalism or partimonialism: The making and unmaking of chief ministers in India
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 25, Heft 8, S. 793-804
ISSN: 0004-4687
Critical assessment of the political system established by Indira Gandhi during 1980-84 before Rajiv Gandhi suceeded her as the Prime Minister of India. The author scrutinizes how Indira Gandhi, who perceived the security and durability of a chief minister of an Indian state as more of a threat than an assurance to the continuity of her paramount powers, made and unmade chief ministers and undermined the operation of the Indian federal system in particular and the Indian political system in general. He thinks that Rajiv Gandhi as the new Prime Minister has established no new precedent regarding the federal system (DÜI-Sen)