Word: ahmadnagar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good guess was that Nehru was at Ahmadnagar Fort, about 200 miles from Bombay. Here the Duke of Wellington once lunched on a grassy bank outside the fort's huge stone walls. Here the British once kept prisoners of the Boer war. Here, more recently, they have interned Italians captured in North Africa. Here Nehru, who worked for Loyalist Spain, who cried out against Munich, who was shocked by Hitler's Brown Shirts and twice snubbed invitations for an interview with Mussolini, could look out bitterly on monsoon skies. Nehru alone knew what thoughts were in his mind...
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