It is difficult to believe that in any other democratic state, [Nehru] and his cabinet could have survived...his survival was due to the fact that the Sino-Indian imbroglio had left the mass of the Indian people untouched and those inside the Congress who might have wished to topple Nehru and were in a position to do so were unwilling to lose their greatest electoral asset.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It is difficult to believe that in any other democratic state, [Nehru] and his cabinet could have survived...his survival was due to the fact that the Sino-Indian imbroglio had left the mass of the Indian people untouched and those inside the Congress who might have wished to topple Nehru and were in a position to do so were unwilling to lose their greatest electoral asset." in the context of "Nehru: A Political Biography, M.Edwardes pg 314 Edwardes, M., & Penguin. (1973). Nehru: A political biography. Harmondsworth [etc.: Penguin Books." to mean that wisdom is timeless.