This Village Near Delhi Is Named After Former US President Jimmy Carter. Check Details

Carter was considered a friend of India and he was the first American president to visit India after the removal of the emergency and victory of the Janata Party in 1977. 

Carter is survived by his children — Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy.

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Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, passed away at the age of 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was the longest-lived president in US history. Carter was considered a friend of India and he was the first American president to visit India after the removal of the emergency and victory of the Janata Party in 1977. 

In an address to the Indian Parliament on January 2, 1978, Carter spoke against authoritarian rule. He said, "India's difficulties, which we often experience ourselves and which are typical of the problems faced in the developing world, remind us of the tasks that lie ahead. Not the Authoritarian Way."

"Is democracy important? Is human freedom valued by all people?... India has given her affirmative answer in a thunderous voice, a voice heard around the world. Something momentous happened here last March, not because any particular party won or lost but rather, I think because the largest electorate on earth freely and wisely chooses its leaders at the polls. In this sense, democracy itself was the victor," Carter said, as per news agency PTI.

Jimmy Carter's India Connection

The next day, on January 3, Carter and then First Lady Rosalynn Carter travelled to Daulatpur Nasirabad, a village near Delhi. This is the place where Carter's mother Lillian had worked as a health worker during the late 1960s. As per the Carter Centre, the visit was so successful that shortly after, village residents renamed the area 'Carterpuri'. They remained in contact with the White House during President Carter's tenure.  

The village celebrated when President Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, and January 3 remains a holiday in Carterpuri, the Carter Centre said. President Carter understood that shared democratic principles formed a strong foundation for a long, fruitful relationship between the US and India, it added.

Carter is survived by his children — Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.