The period known as the Emergency refers to
a. the period following the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi that left the Indian independence movement leaderless.
b. the period following the death of Jawaharlal Nehru that left the future direction of the Congress Party in question.
c. a short period in which many formal democratic rights were suspended, and the country was ruled in an authoritarian fashion.
d. the short period between the two periods in which Indira Gandhi served as the prime minister.
e. a period of mass migration and interethnic violence that followed the creation of the separate states of India and Pakistan.
c
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A. presidential government. B. the duality of executive leadership. C. a political coalition. D. separation of powers.
Which president, according to the book, had a deep-seated fear of rejection that translated into a drive to gain power and achieve good works?
a. Ronald Reagan c. Lyndon Johnson b. Woodrow Wilson d. Richard Nixon