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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1972 | |
| State elections strengthened Indira Gandhi's position. | 1 |
| SEWA (meaning “service,” also stands for the Self-Employed Women's Association) was organized. Based first in the city of Ahmedabad, in Gujarat, it worked with women with no fixed place of employment (homes, streets, or fields) and with no fixed employers. Within two decades SEWA gained 30,000 members and succeeded in forcing employers to provide the minimum wages stipulated by law. Using cooperatives, SEWA functioned as a union while also providing banking and health services. | 2 |
| July | |
| India's Gandhi and president of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto signed the Simla Agreement. Both countries renounced the use of force and agreed to respect the cease-fire line in Kashmir and international borders elsewhere. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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