... in the country. Pepsi, trying to fight off the Coca-Cola onslaught, has responded with deep discounting. Coke and Pepsi in India: Coca-Cola controlled the Indian market until 1977, when the Janata Party beat the Congress Party of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. To punish Coca-Cola's principal bottler, a Congress Party ... stalwart and longtime Gandhi supporter, the Janata government demanded that Coca-Cola transfer its syrup formula to an Indian subsidiary (Chakravarty, 43). Coca-Cola balked and withdrew from the country. India, now left without both Coca-Cola and Pepsi, became a prot...

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... horses and roaring canons, the dusty, snake-eating Aztecs were living in earthen dens on an unpromising island in Lake Tetzcoco. Among the many Indian groups that contended for domination of the area in the 13th century, the Aztecs stood out only for their talent for mayhem and slaughter, ... , the Tlaxcalans presented Cortes token gifts of cloth, semiprecious stones, and gold, and offered to lead him onward to the Aztec stronghold. Two interpreters, an Indian woman named Marina, a shipwrecked Spaniard picked up in Yucatan, and Jeronimo de Aguilar, who was fluent in Maya, were Cortes's o...

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