Word: ardeshir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a bold step in India last week. Viceroy Lord Wavell named hardheaded, hard-working Sir Ardeshir Dalal, 60, of Bombay's famed House of Tata, to a seat on his Executive Council and the job of postwar industrial planning. Britain had smiled on the ambitious Bombay 15-Year Plan, a proposal to spend $30,000,000,000 in modernizing backward India...
Until lately, many Indian industrialists contributed liberally to Mohandas Gandhi's Congress Party, banked on it for political backing. Now that the Party is in decline, they must bank on themselves and/or the British. When the Indian tycoons' man, Sir Ardeshir Dalal, joined the Viceroy's council, it looked as though India's industrialists and India's Raj were going to bank on each other. Tata & friends had said they still wanted a strong national government with power to act for India and Indians. Perhaps, through economic cooperation with the Raj, they could get what...