Word: assam
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...impression of an India far more serene than Katherine Mayo's words suggest. Pictures include queer ones of a holy man sitting comfortably on nails, a shot of the spiderweb suspension bridge, made of cane and rattan, that stretches 800 ft. across the Dihang River in Assam. Another holy man, dressed only in covering of thorns and spikes, is pictured twanging away cheerfully on a native banjo, while a holy woman of Benares is shown practicing devotion by staring into the sun without winking. Despite glimpses of temple prostitutes, riot victims, child wives, the gigantic temple car being pulled...
...Work Among the Garos of Assam in India. Sixty years ago the British decided not to exterminate the head-hunting Garos, asked U. S. Baptists to tame and educate them...
...have read it, my copy goes into the Mess anteroom where it is read and enjoyed by the Officers of the Regiment from the colonel, who is notorious for "sitting on it," down to the newest subaltern. After that it goes either to my brother, a tea planter in Assam, or to a brother-in-law serving, at present, on the N. W. Frontier of India, or perhaps to a friend in England, so that it is never wasted...
...this kind: Shame the Christians! Refuse to buy their cloth! Die unresisting at their hands! Nauseate them and drive them mad! However in 1922 the Indian followers of Mr. Gandhi were not as thoroughly saturated as he believed with his mass-martyr ideology. They began to riot at Assam, to strike in Bengal, to massacre at Malabar. The nation was unquestionably roused to such a pitch of fervor that, at one word from "Recpolman" Gandhi, the most terrible grapple and insurrection of modern times would have begun. George V knows how many of his subjects' lives Mr. Gandhi saved...
...Chaulmoogra seeds, from which the oil is extracted, are a product of a tree which grows freely in Burma, Bengal and Assam. The oil with a little caustic soda added, yields sodium chaulmoograte, and free chaulmoogric acid is obtained by the addition of hydrochloric acid. If a little alcohol is poured into this chaulmoogric acid ethyl chaulmoograte is obtained, that is, ethyl estermiscible with blood...