"The determined bid for power from the Left of the Congress Party in which sections of the CPI leadership also played a role. ... It started after the 1969 split of the Congress after which Indira Gandhi had to depend on communist support for survival. ... a number of former card-carrying members of the Communist Party made their way into the Congress with the hope of penetrating its core both in the government and in the party.... They did make a major effort at influencing not just the polity but also a number of scientific and educational institutions, .... a considerable cross-section of the mass media as well as important journals which they came to control. After all, in the Stalinist view of things the intellectual-scientific domain is extremely important.... Meanwhile, the country also drifted more and more into the Soviet dragnet which .... gradually forced many intellectuals and bureaucrats to fall in line."
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Rajni Kothari: Dangers to democracy. The challenges from within, 1995. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 67
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