ABSTRACT
In F. Tomasson Jannuzi's judgment, none of Mrs. Indira Gandhi's redistributive measures seems likely to break through the cumulative inequalities of rural power, rooted as they are in the control of land. Mrs. Gandhi, increasingly as the repression she instituted many months ago solidifies, justifies her alteration of the operative constitution on the ground that economic productivity and justice are more important than civil liberties. The cultural explanation could accordingly be modified to propose that Mrs. Gandhi has confronted one Westernized cultural tradition–the liberal tradition in politics–with another–productive efficiency in economics–to meet the expectations of some hundreds of millions of people of indigenous traditions. In India, even in the Gandhian phase of the nationalist movement, politics held a greater share of the initiatives. Mrs. Gandhi, increasingly as the repression she instituted many months ago solidifies, justifies her alteration of the operative constitution on the ground that economic productivity and justice are more important than civil liberties.
