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Mon 10 Oct 2007Gandhi's son set to preserve India's political dynastyIndia:The grooming of inexperienced Rahul Gandhi for the position of prime minister shows that India, like many of its neighbours, is still under dynastic rule, writes Rahul Bediin New Delhi.The dominance of political dynasties across most of south Asia became evident once more with the formal grooming of a 37-year-old scion of India's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty - which has ruled the country for most of its 60 years of independence - as the next heir to the family patrimony.