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The Republic & the Nehru Years

India · 1963The Kamaraj Plan and India's first no-confidence motion shake the Nehru era

Reeling from the 1962 war with China, the Nehru government faced India's first no-confidence motion and the Congress party-renewal Kamaraj Plan. Parliament passed the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Amendments and the Official Languages Act, Nagaland became the 16th state, and India launched its first sounding rocket from Thumba.

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Key figures

Jawaharlal Nehru — Prime Minister; his post-1962-war government faced the first no-confidence motion and the Kamaraj PlaK. Kamaraj — Madras Chief Minister and Congress leader whose Kamaraj Plan in 1963 reshaped the party organisation.Morarji Desai — Finance Minister associated with the Gold Control Order; resigned from the Union Cabinet under the KamarAcharya J.B. Kripalani — moved independent India's first no-confidence motion in 1963.Vikram Sarabhai — INCOSPAR chairman who guided the early Thumba rocket programme; a founding figure of India's space proDr. S. Radhakrishnan — President of India; inaugurated the new state of Nagaland on 1 December 1963.

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