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Archive for ‘May 20th, 2004’

Hindustan’s ‘Foreign’ Traditions

ISLAMABAD—Had Sonia Gandhi accepted India’s premiership, she wouldn’t have been that nation’s first foreign-born chief executive. A four-generational ruling dynasty in a republic might be ironic; what’s truly paradoxical, however, is the considerable local resentment over a foreign-born ruler in a country with a long history of successive foreign rulers. 
India’s first head of state after [...]