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Wars, the Green Revolution & the Emergency

India · 1965The Second India–Pakistan War and the dawn of the Green Revolution

India fought its second war with Pakistan after Operation Gibraltar and the Rann of Kutch clashes, ending in a UN ceasefire on 23 September 1965. Amid drought and food shortages, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri rallied the nation with 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan', and the anti-Hindi agitation tested federal unity.

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Key figures

Lal Bahadur Shastri — Prime Minister; led India through the 1965 war and food crisis and gave the slogan 'Jai Jawan Jai Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan — President of India from 1962 to 1967.C. Subramaniam — Food and Agriculture Minister; associated with the New Agricultural Strategy and the Green Revolution.Y.B. Chavan — Defence Minister during the 1965 war.Gen. J.N. Chaudhuri — Chief of the Army Staff during the 1965 war.M.S. Swaminathan — agricultural scientist associated with high-yielding wheat and the Green Revolution in India.

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