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Wars, the Green Revolution & the Emergency

India · 1968Green Revolution's wheat breakthrough begins India's road to food self-sufficiency

The Green Revolution's high-yielding wheat delivered a record harvest, easing dependence on PL-480 food imports. Indira Gandhi's government declined to sign the NPT as discriminatory, announced the first National Policy on Education, and created the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).

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Key figures

Indira Gandhi — Prime Minister; presided over Green Revolution gains, the NPT refusal and the creation of R&AW.Zakir Husain — President of India, the country's first Muslim President.M. Hidayatullah — became Chief Justice of India on 25 February 1968.R.N. Kao — founding chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).Vikram Sarabhai — led India's space programme; associated with the dedication of TERLS to the United Nations.Har Gobind Khorana — India-born biochemist; shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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