Word: allahabad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life with Father. Father Motilal Nehru was the leading lawyer and one of the richest men in Allahabad. He bought a great, rambling show place, raised his three children in grand British Raj style with "many horses, dogs, cars and carriages" and a strict English governess for the two girls, Swarup and Krishna. Jawaharlal, 18 years Krishna's senior, was the family favorite. Educated at Harrow and Cambridge, he went home in 1912. With his return began the joint family life of dedication to their country's Nationalist cause...
Using shade trees for classroom roofs, Farmer-Missionary Higginbottom started the Allahabad Agricultural Institute to teach the secret of his miracles. He made princes shed their robes, put on working clothes, and go into the fields to get dirt under their nails just like the Untouchables. Soon, to their native states the student potentates took back a firsthand knowledge of contour farming, water conservation, crop rotation. Today the Allahabad Institute is a 600-acre demonstration farm with a student body...
...Indian All-Parties conference at Allahabad issued a stiff statement: "Judging by the Government's industrial policy during the war and the failure to provide the people with sufficient food at reasonable prices, it has failed in vital matters affecting the nation in this crisis." Present at the conference was moderate Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru. When a United Nations enthusiast like Sir Tej supports such a statement, things must be worse than usual...
...rupees-Trip to Allahabad and back to see Jawaharlal Nehru. It was worth it. There's a truly great man. The train service to Allahabad is lousy these days...
...heart by the clubbings he and his aged mother suffered. He was beaten in a Lucknow demonstration against the Simon Commission in 1928. During a National Week demonstration in 1932 his mother was beaten and left unconscious on the side of the road near her home in Allahabad. She was dead now, and so were his father and his wife Kamala, all helped along to funeral pyres on the banks of the Ganges by their work in India's struggle for independence. There was cold fury in him at the Himalayan stupidity of Tory imperialists, and bitterness...