Word: animists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of India. Though nominally part of the state of Assam, the rambling (31,000 sq. mi.) region is administered directly by the central government because Prime Minister Nehru wants to preserve its primeval aboriginal character. In some of N.E.F.A's valleys are nightmarish rain forests where animist tribesmen invoke among their deities a Dysentery God who, when angry, racks their guts with a quick but painful death...
...state, voted as a constitutional amendment by a joint session of Parliament, was the fulfillment of a campaign pledge that U Nu made 22 months ago to Burma's 20 million people, 85% of whom are Buddhist. It was bitterly opposed by religious minority groups-Moslems, the Animist Kachins, the Christian Chins-and by Buddhists in separatist-minded Karen and Shan states. But the amendment passed by a landslide 324-to-28 vote. Before he left for the neutralist meeting in Belgrade, ascetic Prime Minister U Nu, who three years ago took the vows of a Buddhist monk, pronounced...