Post-independence consolidation to 1991
From Shastri to the Emergency and the Janata government
Concepts to cover
- Shastri 1964-66, Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, 1967 elections with Congress losing eight states, Samyukta Vidhayak Dal governments, defections
- Syndicate versus Indira Gandhi, presidential election 1969, Congress (R) and Congress (O), bank nationalisation, privy purse abolition, Garibi Hatao 1971
- Navnirman in Gujarat, Bihar movement and Jayaprakash Narayan's Total Revolution, railway strike 1974, Allahabad High Court judgment 12 June 1975, Emergency 25 June 1975, 42nd Amendment
- 1977 elections, Janata Party, Morarji Desai and Charan Singh governments, Shah Commission, 44th Amendment, Indira's return 1980