Word: allahabad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young missionary, newly arrived in India, had hoped to bring the Gospel to some remote village. Instead, the Northern Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions sent him to Allahabad Christian College, 70 miles from Benares, and there he got his orders. "Higginbottom," said the principal, "you will have to teach economics." Higginbottom knew little of economics, but he did as he was told. He also did as he was told when the principal said: "The new missionary always has charge of the leper colony. Higginbottom, that is your job now." Thus, at the turn of the century, Sam Higginbottom began...
...spent with lepers, but in one way or another, most of it has been spent teaching. In time, as founder of the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom became famous. Maharajas called him in for advice; the Viceroy invited him to tea; both high- and low-caste Indians became his students. Last week, in a rambling autobiography-Sam Higginbottom, Farmer (Scribner; $3)-the 74-year-old missionary tells his story...
Died. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, 73, Hindu lawyer, Indian Liberal Federation president, who won fame as a mediator between Gandhi and the British, and between the Indian National Congress and the Moslem League; in Allahabad, India...
...autumnal Ganges floods had receded at Allahabad, baring a five-square-mile mud flat where three sacred rivers join-the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna, and the Saraswati, which, according to Hindu legend, wells up from underground. At the Triveni Sangam (Meeting of the Three Rivers) last week, a tumultuous tent city had grown up, peopled by 3,000,000 Hindus. By thousands of fires, breech-clouted sadhus (holy men) chanted Vedic hymns. Around the clock a clangor of raucous songs mingled with hymns, flutes with elephant bells, caterwauls with the keening of sacred recitations. The millions had come...
Gandhi's son Ramdas poured sacred cow's milk into the urn of ashes, swirled it, then slowly poured the mixture into the water.* Gandhi's soul, according to Hindu belief, was at last free from its mortal prison. At the same moment, milkmen of nearby Allahabad, in a unique tribute, poured barrels of milk into the stream...