Word: allahabad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incident was symptomatic of India's current jitters, which make the slightest cause a provocation of mob violence. In New Delhi last week, when a bus failed to stop for waiting students, the youths chased it down, shooed out the driver and passengers, and set it afire. In Allahabad, Kanpur and Calcutta, mobs stopped and sacked trains and buses - for little better reason. Delhi rioters had not much to fear from the police, for the policemen themselves were busy demonstrating for higher pay outside police headquarters; some cops told students that they would not interfere with their demonstrations...
...plain talk. She hit upon the scheme of teaching unlettered peasants to read and write a basic Hindi vocabulary, which she compiled by comparing lists of words most commonly used in the marketplace and household. At its opening in 1953, Literacy Village was one-half a bungalow in Allahabad, a few workers, and a few booklets within the vocabulary range. Today, it is a compound of 20 brick buildings on a country road outside Lucknow, with a courtyard, an ashram for prayer, and a well-worked-out philosophy...
...obscure Parsi lawyer named Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma). Within a few months Feroze and his bride were both in British prisons on charges of subversion. Much like her dolls, Indira had been arrested while leading a parade of women demonstrators down the main streets of Allahabad...
...First Lady. Indira spent 13 months of imprisonment teaching illiterate Indian women how to read. Free again, she and her husband settled in Allahabad and had two boys, Rajiv and Sanjay (now 21 and 19, they are both studying engineering in Britain). The war stopped short of India's borders; Indira abided by Gandhi's slogan: "It's wrong to help the British war effort with men or money...
This week Indira will first travel to Allahabad, where the ashes of Lal Bahadur Shastri will be strewn on the mingling waters of the Ganges...