Word: aligarh
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Almost anything can set the students off. In Aligarh five years ago, they killed a teacher who refused to promote those who had failed their exams. In 1953 Allahabad students raided the railway station, sabotaged trains, fired public buildings. Last year, when eight students were dismissed after another riot, the rest of the student body caused so much trouble that the university closed for a month. In the state of Bihar students launched a four-day reign of terror because the State Transport Authority refused to grant them special bus fares. They hurled bricks at police, raided a bank, burned...
...challenge?" Almi asked. Kanpur's Moslems, all too eager to blame Hindus for their frustrations and poverty, took up the challenge. Thousands who had not read the book trotted through the streets carrying signs that demanded: "Ban the Religious Leaders Book" and "Down with Governor Munshi." In Aligarh students of the Moslem University snaked through the college grounds with a chant: "Long live Pakistan! Death to India!" In neighboring Bhopal rioters burned Munshi in effigy...
...Simla he gave $400 for one cup of tea, and when his car flattened a farmer's chicken on the road, the owner received $40 in kingly recompense. At Benares, after getting an honorary degree, His Majesty donated $10,000 to a university students' union; at Aligarh he gave $600 to his car drivers. During a few days in New Delhi, his party spent $100,000 in gift shops for gold-threaded cloth, sandalwood and ivory bric-a-brac for the wives back home...
...attack. The new councils had been given charge of education, therefore the Extremists planned a boycott of the schools receiving government aid, which includes practically all the schools in India. They turned their attention especially to two of the largest Indian centers of education, the Mohammedan college of Aligarh and the Hindu University at Benares. A good many men were actually persuaded to leave the former and a smaller number to resign the latter, and to attend an institution set up by the Extremists called the National University. But the results of the boycott went no further, and they failed...