Índia União Indiana.
Mais de três milhões de Km2. 960 200 000 habitantes. Mais de 80% de hindus. Vinte e cinco Estados, um dos quais, Goa, com 3 702 km2 e 1 169 000 habitantes. Independente desde 15 de Agosto de 1947, depois de uma longa luta pela liberdade, levada a cabo pelo Congresso Nacional Indiano, fundado em 1885.
Jawaharal Nehru (1889-1964) governa de 1947 até à morte. A filha, Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) governa em 1966-1967 e em 1980-1984.
India
Bharatiya Ganarajya/Republic of India
President: Kocheril Raman Narayanan (1997)
Prime minister: Atal Behari Vajpayee (1998/1999) BJP

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Jawaharlal Nehru |
15-08-1947 |
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Gulzarilal Nanda (1ª vez) |
27-05-1964 |
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Lal Bahadur Shastri |
9-06-1964 |
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Gulzarilal Nanda (2ª vez) |
11-01-1966 |
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Indira Gandhi (1ª vez) |
19-01-1966 |
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Morarji Desai |
24-03-1977 |
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Charan Singh |
28-07-1979 |
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Indira Gandhi (2ª vez) |
14-01-1980 |
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Rajiv Gandhi |
31-10-1984 |
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Vishwanath Pratap Singh |
2-12-1989 |
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Chandra Shekhar |
10-11-1990 |
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P.V. Narasimha Rao |
21-06-1991 |
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1ª vez) |
16-05-1996 |
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H.D. Deve Gowda |
1-06-1996 |
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Inder Kumar Gujral |
21-04-1997 |
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee (2ª vez) |
19-03-1998 |
BJP |
The government is formed by the BJP, SHS, BJD, AITC, SAD, Lok Shakti, Samata Party, DMK, JD(U), NCP and non-partisans.
The Sansad/Parliament has two chambers. The Lok Sabha/House of the People has 545 members, 543 members elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies
Lok Sabha: 5, 12, 18, 25 september and 3 october 1999 (59.7 %)
State of the parties: june 2000 % 545
Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party, extreme hinduist) BJP . 182/183
Indian National Congress (populist) INC . 112 /114
Communist Party of India-Marxist (communist) CPI-M . 32 /33
Telugu Desam (Telugu Land, Andra Pradesh regional progressive) TDP . 29
Samajwadi Party (Socialist Party, socialist) SP . 26
Janata Dal (United) (People's Party-United, social-democratic) JD (U) . 20/22
Shiva Sena (extreme hinduist) SHS . 15
Bahujan Samaj Party (Majority Society Party, Harijans minority) BSP . 14
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Dravida Progressive Federation, Tamil regionalist) DMK . 12
All-India Anna Diravida Munnetra Kazhagam (All-India Anna Diravida Progressive Federation, Tamil regionalist) ADMK . 10
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