Banking

Coverage balance

How many entries exist for each party's governments and each decade. This shows where the record is thin, so a quiet period reads as a gap in coverage, not as inactivity.

Dossiers

Actions in time order, by government

1. Indira Gandhi, 24 Jan 1966 to 24 Mar 1977

   INC INC government

   • ImplementedINC19 Jul 1969

     Nationalisation of 14 major commercial banks (1969)

     In July 1969 the government took over 14 large private banks. Bank branches and rural deposits rose between 1969 and 1991; the Supreme Court first invalidated the Act on compensation grounds.

     Evidence points +9.0 (range +8.0 to +10.0)