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| 1996, May 15 | |
| After shaky election results, the Indian president Shanksar Dayal Sharma asked the Hindu Nationalist Party, or BJP, now growing in popularity, to form a coalition government and take power. On May 28 the BJP resigned in anticipation of an imminent no-confidence vote. The president appointed a new prime minister, centrist H. D. Deve Gowda, and asked him to form a new government. This new government pledged a more free-market economy to spur economic growth. Training in computer science and software development continued to expand in the middle classes. | 1 |
| 1997, April 11 | |
| The ten-month-old coalition government collapsed due to a no-confidence vote. On April 19 former finance minister Inder Kumar Gujral was named the new prime minister. | 2 |
| Sept. 5 | |
| Nobel Peace Prize–winner Mother Theresa died. She was given a state funeral on Sept. 13. | 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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